Macklemore Free Palestine Tour Dublin
by 🏅 Teresa: Macklemore
The phrase "Free Palestine" is what Macklemore built his Dublin set around, telling the crowd on the Free Palestine Tour's first night that some people find those two words threatening. Rather than face what they mean, he said, they'd prefer to shut them down. His definition landed plainly: a freedom that depends on someone else's oppression isn't freedom. He also argued the words have drawn more controversy than the suffering that made them necessary, pointing to footage of parents pulling kids from rubble and families wiped out, and to music's long history as a place for resistance, gathering, shared grief and moving people through love.
Transcript (en)
And yet those words, those two words, right, those two words are so threatening to some people. They would rather silence those two words than confront what they actually mean. because freedom because freedom that requires another person's oppression is not freedom at all I said freedom that requires another person's oppression is not freedom at all While the world debates those words, we see the videos, we see the footage, we see parents pulling their children out of the rubble, families erased, devastation beyond our imagination. And somehow, those words have become more controversial than the suffering that made them necessary. that's why we're here tonight that is why we are here because throughout history throughout history music has given people the place to resist to come together as a collective to share our grief to share our stories to move from the heart to mobilize people with the frequency of love, the heartbeat in our drum that makes us feel alive, that makes us feel connected.
