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Scared of revolution

Scared of revolution

DVD 2019

Umar Bin Hassan hasn't even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there's sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces, 'Ni****s Are Scared of Revolution,' he criticizes his black brothers destructive, macho behavior. Scared of Revolu...