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<text id=92TT0139>
<title>
Jan. 20, 1992: Chuck D Doesn't Understand It
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Jan. 20, 1992 Why Are Men and Women Different?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 63
It's a King Thing--Chuck D Doesn't Understand It
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<p>By Michael Quinn
</p>
<p> How do you respond to politicians who oppose a holiday
honoring Martin Luther King Jr., the American apostle of
nonviolence? Answer: You kill them. At least that is the
solution offered by red-hot rappers Public Enemy in By the Time
I Get to Arizona, a bizarrely backhanded music-video "tribute"
to King on the eve of his nationally observed birthday. As
King's life work is mocked with lyrics like "Hard as it seems,
this ain't no damn dream," the clip depicts P.E. members
shooting, poisoning and bombing public officials. While
conceding that King "wouldn't like" the video,
composer-performer Chuck D suggests that had the Dreamer lived
into the '90s, "he might have been Martin Luther King
Farrakhan." The strongest criticism has come from Arizonans
promoting a King holiday. "It does not help us," says the Rev.
Warren Stewart of Phoenix, "and it does a disservice to Dr.
King's legacy."
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</body></article>
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