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Word, Spike. Few groups pulsate with more in-your-face aggression than the four young black men known as Public Enemy, rap music's self-proclaimed "prophets of rage." For the sound track, they concocted Fight the Power, a swaggering mixture of combustive rhythms and rebellious rhymes ("Got to give us what we want/ Got to give us what we need/ Our freedom of speech is freedom or death/ We got to fight the powers that be"). The song not only whipped the movie to a fiery pitch but sold nearly 500,000 singles and became an anthem for millions...
...hours later the mob returned, and this time the wooden door began to splinter under the heavy blows. Arutyunov's wife Asya rushed to the balcony and screamed for the police. Interior Ministry soldiers arrived just in time to save the Arutyunovs from a seething rage of some 100 Azerbaijanis. "The soldiers told us to be ready to leave in three minutes," said Asya. "But what could I gather so quickly? We left with just the clothes on our backs...
...week, first crossing the Caspian Sea by ferry to Turkmenistan, then flying on to Moscow or the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Many of those who landed in Moscow huddled around the building that houses Armenia's representational office, transforming the quiet street into an encampment of shock, grief and rage. As a refugee put it, "What civilized country would allow its own people to be murdered...
...even as their numbers shrank, Azerbaijani refugees flooded the city. Most of them were unemployed farmers and goatherds who claimed they had been chased from Armenia. These 130,000 new Azerbaijani settlers transformed the once cosmopolitan capital into a city ringed with slums and squatter districts. Their simmering rage against the Armenians triggered the riots that led to last week's battles...
...wants. But by centering the dialogue on their "innocence," these men (whether they realized it or not) limited the discussion such that they did not have to listen to anyone's anger. By focusing on "the facts" as they saw them, they were able to dismiss the rage of a lot of women and men in the house as simply misguided and irrational. That's bad. Ironic, too: answering discrimination with anger seems to me the only reasonable response, really...