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The United States is currently in a state of disarray. Racial tensions and mistrust of the police force are high. Rage Against the Machine has been a voice of political discourse for generations and their message rings truer now more than ever. Killing in the Name preaches of white supremacy that exists within our police state that has been designed to subjugate and oppress people of color for centuries.

Unarmed black civilians are murdered at a rate much higher than whites in the US. There were 996 killings by police in 2018 and this figure has increased well into 2020. The rate of police shootings among black Americans are statistically much higher than that of any other ethnicity, standing currently at 30 fatal shootings per million of the population, compared to only 12 fatal shootings per million for white citizens (as of June 2020).

Black Lives Matter is an important movement that is integral to the growth…