It is sunday, august 13th. You are watching velshi on msnbc. Im Charles Coleman junior, filling in from my friend, ali velshi. Georgia, georgia, no piece did i find but that Fulton County indictment thats on my mind. Im paraphrasing from the great greg charles. Georgia on the might of a lot of people, including donald trump, were a fourth possible criminal indictment of the former president could be filed in a matter of days. The states former lieutenant governor, jeff duncan, said yesterday that hes received notice asking him to appear before the grand jury on tuesday. Additionally, independent journalists, george, posted on social media that he received a call from the office of Fulton County district attorney, fani willis, also asking him to come in on tuesday to give his testimony. These are still the clearest finds out that fani willis will present her case to the grand jury in the coming weeks and pursue a criminal indictment in the States Election interference case. Security mea
lot, on the one hand you have the forces of policing and the surveillance state, on the other hand, you have the expectations of a community, oftentimes people want to test embassies. are you really, are you really come from where you come from? there is a real constraint that is produced for these artists. i want, a part of what i wanted to point to was that reality. also, there is the pressure, you know, i quote in brother blue. wanna society revolves, you become a glorious out. lock the pressure of that, of carrying out the burden of allowing music that makes people feel as though they can live out their fantasies of transcending circumstances is enormous. so i think it s important to acknowledge that reality. i ve got to get into questions in two minutes. mark, have pop has struggled particularly rap music, for
important to give truth to the reality that we are often targeted by those who are supposed to be charged with protecting and serving our communities as well. i say it all the time, hip-hop is very much so about narrative, a cultural narrative. as i was talking about the song, and up to a song, at the police in the last, block mark, we know that that put the group on the fbi s radar back in 89. the bureau said that it was encouraging in advocating for violence against law enforcement. even though it was provocative, and controversial, if you listen to the actual lyrics of what nwa was sane, it was calling out a larger, glaring facet of black american life. that being police brutality. it seems that people were listening but no one actually heard what was being said. what do you make of that? well i always find amazing, thanks for having me on today, charles. what i always find amazing about that song is that they