How Switched On did that sound?

[ori-STUDFARM]

So, today, a Public Enemy track came on my iPod as it was doing a random shuffle. It was Night Of the Living Baseheads from the Nation Of Millions album.

Now this song starts with a speech that I always had assumed was Malcom X or Martin Luthor King (nearly wrote Rodney King there….he’s only famous for getting his ass whupped!). I’ve just found out that the speech is actually by Khalid Abdul Muhammad….yeah, I know! How stupid of me! :rolleyes:

Anyway, the speech goes:

“Have you forgotten, then when we were brought here, we were robbed of our names. Robbed of our languages. We lost our religions our cultures our Gods. “

And I then altered the next line and shouted out loud

“…and many of us by the way we act, I even lost my keys!”

Don’t know why, but this tickled me….and I’m still laughing at it. And in my mind, it’s as if I heard it coming from you guys…or maybe that’s just me!

BIG JOBBIES

[rob]

Funny that you should bring that up…I’ve maintained for many years that switched:ON is not just one of the most entertaining podcasts in history, but it also teaches a state of mind or a way of looking at the world. This is a perfect example of taking something serious and turning it into something ridiculous. You have learned well, Padawan.

[Bucho]

That is funny. Now I’ll never be able to listen to that song again without thinking of it.

And I’ll live happily ever after.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[Larkitect]

i do all kinds of stuff now because of switched on.

i love ordering a pot pie in a pizza joint.

My essence still senses Bucho's women.

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