Friday music: If you don't love jazz, you hate America

Following my McWhorter reference this morning, I guess I'll post this, with appropriate ambivalence. I'm a big Marcus Miller fan, and one of his best albums, if not just flat out his best, was Afrodeezia, a few years ago. The last track on it had a spoken word/rap thing over the music (not my style, obviously) on police violence. The title: "I Can't Breathe." The title was obviously a reference to Eric Garner, but despite the album coming out in 2015-- the same year as the DoJ report on Michael Brown and Darren Wilson, which debunked the "hands up, don't shoot" myth, the song interweaves references to that myth with some of the actually true stories, like Eric Garner.

That makes this a complicated piece, in its historical legacy.