Boots Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It is something that you build and you hone.
And only because I was I came from a disciplined party.
Did I know that I did?
Did I have the philosophy that I could get better?
Yeah, that I could just work on it and figure that out.
I was first I saw it around me.
And so I thought that it was a cool thing to do.
But when it solidified that I'm going to do this was we were working in the Double Rock projects in San Francisco.
And there was a case in which a woman named
Rossi Hawkins and her two twin sons got beat down.
Her two twin eight year old sons got beat down by the police.
And the neighborhood of Double Rock came out and started charging the police.
And the cops shot in the air.
The crowd ran away.
And the story that everybody tells, the thing that made everyone turn around was someone started chanting.
fight the power, fight the power.
And that was 1989, do the right thing.
The song from do the right thing, fight the power.
It was all over the radio.