Where Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" offers a voice of protest in the face of oppression, "Prima Donna" and "Atlanta" disavow a progressive narrative, and instead insist on the paradoxes — and hypocrisies — that operate in the worlds they depict.
David offers a language of protest that anyone can apply in their day to day lives.
The New York Times's Andrew Jacobs followed one citizen who decided to take up the government's Olympic offer of designated protest zones for aggrieved parties who had filed the proper paperwork.
And he notes that few cultural critics, with the famed exception of Bill Cosby — still campaigning against insulting stereotypes, but now accused of being out of date — have offered a word of protest.
After all, their Scottish counterparts hardly offered a murmur of protest when the government said earlier this year that a "right of responsible access" should be enshrined in law.Arguably, Scottish landowners had particular cause to be aggrieved.
Certainly, there were others who spoke out forcefully against the decision, but Barack Obama, the preferred candidate of the nation's most committed gun control proponents, did not offer a syllable of protest.
Given Netanyahu's warm reception on Capitol Hill when he visited the United States a few weeks ago, I fear that most members of Congress will not offer a peep of protest, even as Israel, a key American ally that bills itself as "the only democracy in the Middle East," strays into undemocratic and clearly bigoted lawmaking.
Did these people offer a peep of protest?
At Stubb's, Tom Morello, Ben Harper, Billy Bragg and other Young favorites had offered rousing sets of protest music, culminating in a no-holds-barred rendition of "This Land Is Your Land" that had former TV talk-show host Phil Donahue, the movie's co-director, moshing in the pit.
She performed often until Jews were banned from playing in public, and she turned down all offers of engagements in protest.
