LAS Post #3

Day 3:

Rebel Diaz is a hip-hop group that is visiting Furman today! They are a radical leftist group that advocates for the marginalized people and poorer areas in America. This group also strives to tear down capitalism and the people in power with the messages in their music; They hope to lift people up who are being marginalized. The class is participating in a workshop with Rebel Diaz today, and we will be able to talk to them and ask questions about their journey with political activism through their music, and what it means to them. As I was looking up information about the group, looking at articles and videos, I came across a video interview from 2010, where the interviewer's first question was "what topics do you feel are most important right now? What is the main message that you want to send out with your music?". RodStarz immediately chimed in, saying the big topics that they like to talk about is land, and their peoples land being taken away and displaced. In this interview, they continue on more deeper topics; Such as protecting black youth from being incarcerated unnecessarily, poor people having less access to health care and dying because of it. These things are still happening, even though this interview in 2010...which is almost 10 years from now. What I am wondering is, do they still have the same issues to preach about? Do they still want to fix all the exact same things they have been trying to fix for almost 10 years? Finally, since the world is so much different in many negative and positive ways then it was in 2010, what is the main issue that they want to talk about in their music? And what do we need to do, as young people in America right now, to help advocate for marginalized people in unsafe areas?