badnun99 wrote:Thanks for the original lyrics and while they are hardly Michael Franti and Spearhead (or Green Day, U2 or even Eminem for that matter) I guess they are political.
It is kind of sad really; that a band named after a freed slave who rose up to become a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, then it's first bishop, an outspoken leader in the African American community and who once wrote in hopes of discouraging African Americans from returning to Africa that "This land which we have watered with our tears and our blood is now our mother country" might have second thoughts about voicing any political statements.
But the band isn't named after the actual man. It's named after the street which was named after the man. Unless Bishop Allen Drive did something political in it's asphalt youth, I don't think your argument has much validity.
