Just days before the Super Bowl, John Mellencamp sank to his knees in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after performing a political ballad on the "Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
The singer-songwriter sang the violin-and-piano dirge "Easy Target,"
with the lyrics "In the street and the gutters/ The cotton fields in
this land/ Here's an easy target." At the end, he knelt and lifted his
right fist into the air.
The song comes from Mellencamp's album "Sad Clowns & Hillbillies," which came out late last year.
Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick
started the kneeling movement at the national anthem to protest racial
inequality and police mistreatment of black males. The protests prompted
President Donald Trump to say players should be fired for not standing
during the anthem.
"Taking the knee started purely and simply as a protest of racial and
social injustice," Mellencamp told The Associated Press. "Sadly it was
politicized by the current administration. The song is simple and the
protest is pure."
John Mellencamp takes a knee for Black Lives Matter
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February 06, 2018
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