they hung young cain from the adam tree

February 8th, 2008

Fine, so we won’t bother you with more hilarious posts from the TSA’s blog (but for the diehard: today a post intended to laud the blogosphere for their hard work turns into a total asskicking. brilliant) but instead turn your precious attention, inspired by some random Spivak wandering, to the postcolonial realities encapsulated by this song. Wrought from the soundtrack to King of Scotland, a movie whose pretensions to antiracism actually amount to painting its idealist white lead as savior (with long hair no less), this song nevertheless shows us how music is able to travel much more than any kind of bullshit philosophizing.

Angela Kalule - Me and Bobby McGee

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