Hip-Hop for Palestine
The culmination of Palestine Week at UNC wasn’t a keynote address by a renowned politician and wasn’t a lecture by a tenured professor in the history department. It wasn’t even a vigil marked by a candlelit Polk Place.
But the event’s organizers and performers would argue “Hip-Hop for Palestine,” a concert that took place Saturday night in the Great Hall, was perhaps the best way to tie the week’s events together.
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The last performer, Kevin James, aka Son of Nun, was perhaps the most effective in ensuring the continuation of discussions about the occupation of Palestine and the United States’ role therein.
James stood in the middle of the crowd for his entire set, rapping about issues including the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, founder of the Crips gang, and Hurricane Katrina, in addition to the situation in Palestine.
And James said he thinks both Saturday’s show and the week as a whole were effective in encouraging further discussion of the role of U.S. foreign policy in Palestine .
“From what I’ve heard about the week this far, it’s resulted in people taking sides on Palestinian issues,” he said. “People are learning what their opinions should be because they’ve seen these issues addressed in this way.”
