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Thursday, January 21, 2021

John Fogarty in the antiracism battle

 Legendary John Fogarty of Creedence fame has a new song out that addresses racism, inequality and the pandemic's suffering frontline workers.

Weeping in the Promised Land

Excerpt from the TV interview below:

Q. Do you think music can unify us?

Fogarty: Heck yes! No matter what those pasty white guys in the halls of Congress say, racism is systemic in our country. The phrase I sometimes say is, ‘Silence is racism’ because if you’re not doing something, you’re allowing the racists to win.