the lines quoted by JujubeParade can be compared with a line in "Maria" in which RATM talks about "a new line of Mason Dixon." Saying that our line dividing the country into slave states and free states
has shifted to a new type of slavery in prison labor.
As always, this song is filled with little cultural references. RATM is very exact in this sense.
The line
"Tha spirit of jackson
now screams through the ruins..."
refers to George Jackson, a young african american sentenced to death. From prison he wrote letters which have been collected and later published.
Things like "privatizing through private eyes" when tied with the rest of the lyrics seems to mean that in the interest of capitalism and corporations´ greed, innocent people are imprisoned.
the lines quoted by JujubeParade can be compared with a line in "Maria" in which RATM talks about "a new line of Mason Dixon." Saying that our line dividing the country into slave states and free states has shifted to a new type of slavery in prison labor.
As always, this song is filled with little cultural references. RATM is very exact in this sense.
The line "Tha spirit of jackson now screams through the ruins..." refers to George Jackson, a young african american sentenced to death. From prison he wrote letters which have been collected and later published.
Things like "privatizing through private eyes" when tied with the rest of the lyrics seems to mean that in the interest of capitalism and corporations´ greed, innocent people are imprisoned.