Rettelse og kritik af stil

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Generally, music means a lot to many people around the globe. Music is a culture, a tradition and even plenty more things. Personally, music means a lot to me as well. I use to hear some rock – not too fancy or hard, but softly good rock like “The Beatles” for instance. I like music because it sounds good and the lyrics are also an important thing to mention. The text can either include a message or a protest to the society, which also makes music to some special. You can kinda express yourself on that way. </o:p>

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I saw a man get killed. It was late at the evening and all of a sudden 41 shots went through the air. A thought went trough my minds: “Is this only because his black? – what if his skin was by the purest white American kind?”  Racism was the word… Earlier that morning Lena</st1:place> was getting her son ready to school. She told him anything he shouldn’t do if he ran into the police. Lena</st1:place> was worried about her son and just a few minutes later her son got killed. </o:p>

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The song is about a black kid who gets killed by a white police-officer. The police might have been racists due to the 41 shots, because 2 or even 1 shot would have been sufficient. They were obviously scared when the black man had his hands in his trousers. They might have thought that he had a gun, a knife or basically any weapon he would scare them with. </o:p>

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Springsteen was inspired by the real incidence in 1999 and would create a debate in the country about race-difference. </o:p>

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The police reacted rather dramatically. The president in the PBA, New York</st1:state></st1:place> Patrick Lynch posted a comment in a letter where he accused and blamed Bruce’ song. - Even though he hadn’t heard the song! Patrick said that Bruce only intended to reopen the tragic case and therefore made the song. </o:p>

However, it was not only bad things to be said about the song. Al Sharpton actually praised the song and said: “We were all born in America</st1:place></st1:country-region> – everybody has their rights”. </o:p>

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Springsteen had a lot of comments to the police reactions in the case, including: “The big purpose with this song was obviously to ask: Who we are? And that’s why I made this song, in order to bring up the issue in the US</st1:place></st1:country-region>, because it is so important. </o:p>

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I agree with Bruce in this case, and I also think that race-issues have become a major question in the US</st1:country-region></st1:place> and we got to handle that now ‘cause elsewhere there will be plenty of racism moreover and that would simply be a disaster. </o:p>

Well, I don’t thing Elvis’ song was about racism but more about a black child’s life. So it’s pretty difficult to compare…</o:p>