Day Bob Marley taught airport security f ‘the most powerful response to injustice is not resistance but dignity that refuses to bend’
As Bob stepped forward in the security line, an officer raised his hand, not hurried, not aggressive, just firm enough to stop momentum. Sir, step aside. Bob paused.
‘Talking About Revolution’ songs: Black folk music icon Trace Chapman waited 35 years to top music charts in US
Fast Car didn’t immediately explode. It climbed slowly, building through word-of-mouth and college radio. Then Tracy performed at a concert tribute to Nelson Mandela (still imprisoned at the time) at Wembley Stadium, broadcast to millions worldwide.
How fallen reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley became political, ideological threats to US resulting in CIA assassinating Marley
Then came 1980s when the foundations of the Berlin Wall looked shaken and East and West Germany looked to be healing longstanding ideological rifts. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), then led by Mikhail Gorbachev, began tumbling like a house of cards. The disintegration of USSR for some time appeared like the ultimate dissipation of communism. There would be no more threat to US cultural, military and ideological hegemony.