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- PEOPLE, Page 63It's a King Thing -- Chuck D Doesn't Understand It
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- 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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