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Rant during Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine at Lollapalooza 2008

by: WindyCitizen.com

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: rageagainstthemachine lollapalooza2008 music concert political politics

In what seems like a tradition, de la Rocha used the instrumental break on "Wake Up" to fire some lefty, but generally anti-authoritarian politics at the crowd in which he called out "brother Obama" and spoke of a "new generation" of young blacks and latinos who don't care about national politics and who are going to force a reckoning.