I’ve been thinking the same thing for months. Someone should tell Oprah that it’s more similar than Emmet Till.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
and the training ship named for him is now the US Coast Guard Eagle.
I never knew the history behind the song. Maybe now Trayvon needs a song named after him too. Maybe the title could be “Ode to St. Skittles”.
Hoodies high, ranks closed
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.
The street free for the brown battalions,
The street free for the grievance lords.
Millions, full of dope, look up at the skittles;
The day breaks for freedom and for skittles.
For the last time the lean will now be drunk;
For the struggle now we all stand ready.
Soon will fly Trayvon-flags over every street;
Old School will last only a short time longer.
Hoodies high, ranks closed,
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.
Sung to the tune of a catchy German number from the 30’s.
Many, many WWII movies concerning Nazi Germany used the Horst Wessel lied as background music when showing scenes of Nazis marching or doing whatever. I doubt most non-German moviegoers knew what they were listening to.
Wessel’s family background was quite a cut above Trayvons. His father was a well known music professor and Horst showed promise as a budding musician and composer himself. That is until he hooked up with the SA. His tune “Die Fahen Hoch’’(’’The Flag is High’’) was a set of lyrics he penned and used the melody from an old North German folk tune. After his death it became the second national German anthem. Goebbbels referred to Wessel as ‘A Socialist Christ’’.