New Docu-Series That Explores the Inspiration of Rage Against the Machine and ‘the Fiction Known As Whiteness’ Is Phenomenal: WATCH
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The new document-series Killing In Thy Name explores the dark historical origins of Rage Against the Machine’s 1991 anthem “Killing in the Name” and “the fiction known as whiteness.”
Photo above: Rage Against the Machine’s vocalist and frontman Zack de la Rocha.
It’s phenomenal.
Rolling Stone: The 15-minute film Killing in Thy Name, a collaboration with the arts collective the Ummah Chroma, features a teacher educating a small group of students about “the fiction known as whiteness” as well as the United States’ history of racial and social oppression.
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“Living in the States, you’re living in one of the most brutal societies in the history of the world,” Machine’s frontman, Zack de la Rocha says in an archival interview within the film. “The country who inherited the genocide of the Native American people. A country which participated in slavery. Any society or any government or any system that is set up solely to profit a wealthy class while the majority of the people toil and suffer and sell their labor power, so long as that system’s only true motive is profit interest and not the maintenance and the betterment of the population, to meeting human needs, then that society should not stand. It should be challenged and questioned and overthrown.”
