Anti-discrimination

Nina Simone – Strange Fruit

1939

Southern trees bearing strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come

1964

I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh, and just like the river, I’ve been running
Ever since

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

1971

Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply ’cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today

The Clash – (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais

1977

All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They’d send a limousine anyway

Bob Marley – Redemption Song

1980

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind

The Special AKA – Racist Friend

1984

If you have a racist friend
now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end
Tell them to change their views
Or change their friends
Now is the time, now is the time, for your friendship to end

Public Enemy – Fight The Power

1989

What we got to say?
Power to the people no delay
Make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be

Kendrick Lamar – Alright

2015

I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin’ in the hotel room
I didn’t wanna self destruct, the evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went runnin’ for answers

Kate Tempest – Europe Is Lost

2016

The wrongs of our past have resurfaced
Despite all we did to vanquish the traces
My very language is tainted
With all that we stole to replace it with this

Kano – SYM

2019

They want throw banana skins at John Barnsey’s
They tell us to go fuckin’ back to our own country
But they won’t even give us back our own countries
Every entrance to a door, has a footprint left by the ones that came before