Salome MC - Scream To Let Your Voice Be Heard | داد بزن صدات برسه скачать в хорошем качестве

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Disclaimer/context in 2024 for this 2009 video: I made this song/video when I was a teenage rapper living Tehran, Iran, after witnessing the 2008-2009 Gaza massacre on TV, and that was the first time I started to question some of my inherent, taken for granted beliefs. Iran, as you know, has an authoritarian ruling system, and anyone who grows up in such countries knows that for the average person, the default assumption about anything coming out of the mouth of the rulers is that it's obviously propaganda. Especially as a teenager, most would tend to believe the opposite of whatever the regime is promoting. I too, like many kids my age, had looked at the P/I conflict through this lens, and the first thing I would've always asked was: Why is the regime sending our oil money to Palestine? We need it here ourselves! So yes, in 2009 I was experiencing something that I feel like is in someways similar to how the Western youth felt after the October 2003. Revelations, needing to educate, putting away biases and I am ashamed to admit, racism. Unfortunately many us Iranians have a racist streak towards Arabic speaking ethnic groups, despite the fact that we have a sizable Arabic speaking Iranian population ourselves. This is the type of implicit bias that I didn't even recognize as racism until way, way later. And I unfortunately still see it from many Iranians to this day. If you see weirdly hardcore monarchist "I'm persian" type Iranians, some of it could be explained from this perspective. Not all though, and don't get me started with the racial supremacist tendencies of the Iranian monarchist ilk. Now the disclaimer is, these lyrics are pretty raw with historical references as well as terminology that I admittedly wasn't very well-versed on as a 17 year old Iranian girl. Internet back then wasn't the sea of information - and misinformation - it is today. But also, the audience for this video was my fellow Tehrani teenagers in 2009 who were saying things like "I don't give a shit that babies are being bombed, they deserve it." The emotions are directed at my own friends who I couldn't recognize when they were not able to be objective due to indoctrination - our tendency to oppose anything that the Iranian regime promotes. So it has a lot of flaws in multiple fronts, for example today I wouldn't have referenced Holocaust in a song like this, even though many holocaust survivor leaders and genocide scholars have drawn parallels, it is not my place to do so. I wouldn't have name dropped Hiroshima, and especially having lived in japan for 7 years (I moved there one year after uploading this video) I "cringe" at that part as the youth call it, as well as a few other phrases and some simplistic history lessons that I dump. This was the first time I filmed myself by my laptop's webcam. And put the subtitles in my broken English using a cracked premiere I downloaded. I made it private a few years late, hoping to one day return and write this disclaimer but life got in the way and here I am fifteen year later, doing it because history repeats itself painfully and unironically. I make it public again because despite its flaws in delivery, I still fully believe the core message which has once again become painfully relevant due to the genocide in Gaza. Also it's a little note of reminder to myself about growth. That people can learn and change and it's worth to take time to approach with empathy and try to educate. I live in the US now, and running in anti-war activism circles, I've been so lucky to learn from many Jewish and Palestinian peace activists and leaders who work together tirelessly to wash this whole conflict from decades-long propaganda by heavily invested powerful interest groups that span commercial to geopolitical sphere. Let's hope collective grassroots efforts to reconnect and find common ground prevails over industrial systems of hierarchy and exploitation that thrive on division. Salome