In Equal Rights, his haunting salute to the Black struggle in the 1970s, Jamaican Conscious Reggae singer the late Peter Tosh says it like no-one else: “Everyone is talking about crime…Tell me who are the criminals…
HARD TRUTHS Remembering George Floyd: Who are the Criminals? “Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them." Gen. 6: 11-13, KJV) In Equal Rights , his haunting salute to the Black struggle in the 1970s, Jamaican Conscious Reggae singer the late Peter Tosh says it like no-one else: “Everyone is talking about crime…Tell me who are the criminals… Everyone is heading for the top. But tell me, how far is it from the bottom?” Like Black people everywhere, many of my White friends have reached out to us for help in making sense of the pent up anger that has exploded into the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. In response to these requests we are sometimes tempted to channel award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodg...