You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. Both the melody and the lyrics have the specific inspiration behind them. Shortly after returning from India where he was learning the art of Transcendental Meditation with the other Beatles, Paul McCartney wrote “Blackbird” while at High Park Farm in Kintyre, Scotland in April of 1968. A song inspired by the racial tensions that exploded in the US in spring 1968 as a symbolic way to support the civil rights movement. The station that gifted us one of the most powerful compositions, “Blackbird”. This very incident did instigate the zeal in me to rewind the engine and halt at the 60’s station. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in the protests held at the heart of the United States, making it one of the largest movements in U.S. However, just like the very many by-gone incidents of racial discrimination, this movement somewhere took a back seat. To be precise, it wasn’t solely the United States that raised voice but citizens from all over the world took to unabashedly disconcert the in-human (yet committed by a human) crime.
The following day witnessed the return of the decentralized movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience that had originated in July 2013, named, BLACK LIVES MATTER. The 25 th of July, this year, gave us all an incredulous gasp when we had to painfully witness the terribly unsettling picture of Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African-American, for nearly eight minutes, while the other three officers looked on.
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