Other songs DJ Tamatha Paul should have played

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Martyn Bradbury
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Tamatha Paul just gets cooler…

Greens say we have bigger issues than policing music, after MP’s edgy street festival DJ set

Wellington MP Tamatha Paul shared video of her DJing at CubaDupa over the weekend with a song dubbed over about the police – days after coalition parties labelled commentary from Green police spokesperson as “nutty”, “anarchy”, “la la land stuff”.

In a statement about the recent video post Swarbrick told Stuff: “Right now, there are New Zealanders living cold, hungry, and homeless. We have real issues in this country, and I don’t think policing people’s music taste should be one of them.”

Stuff’s political reporter Jenna Lynch asked how appropriate it was for the lyrics ‘the police have a little gun, so when I’m on the streets, I walk around with a bigger one’ to be played.

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…look at Jenna Lynch the little music nark! You could never tell she’s married to the ACT Party Chief of Staff could you?
Tamatha, who was 100% right about some in the Community fearing the Police, was attacked for daring to point this fact out and replied with a great DJ Set that included ‘Sound of da Police’ and ‘Killing in the name’ in her play set.
Here are other songs she should have included:
  • Prison Song – SOAD
  • I shot the sheriff – Bob Marley
  • Colors – Ice T
  • Fuck the Police – NWA
  • This is America – Childish Gambino
  • Hurricane – Bob Dylan
  • Cop Killer – Ice T
  • Changes – Tupac
  • The Revolution will not be televised – Gil Scott-Heron
  • MIA – Paper Planes
I think we as a culture turn a blind eye to Police abuse because of our colonising settler culture.

When Pakeha settlers grew nervous about angry Māori youth on the edge of town who were already feeling the negative alienations of colonisation,  they gave the mounted constabulary the grim nod of guilty approval to do what ever was needed to ensure our place here on these shaky isles. We turn a blind eye to let the Police ‘do what they need’  because we privately acknowledge the negative impact of our colonisation without ever wanting to rectify that negative beyond heavy handed policing to enforce and ensure order.

The Police get away with abusing their power because we allow them to do it. Holding the NZ Police to account for abusing their power requires us to acknowledge why we’ve allowed them to get away with it for so long, and that’s why the establishment has come down hard on Tamatha for daring to challenge the narrative.

ACT, NZF, National and Labour  are behaving like abusive parents angry no one wants to come to Christmas.

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