Newark’s Mayor Ras Baraka……“What We Want”

Newark’s Mayor Ras Baraka  exercised his musical prowess  In  expressing outrage over the horrific killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officers  Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.  Rather than deliver a traditional  speech  Mayor Barack opted instead to deliver a  spoken words  poem with musical accompaniments reverberating a resounding message of resolve , pride and dignity  cloaked in the rhetorical question of what we want .  The genius of  the songs title “what we want ” lies in the fact it’s echoes the sentiment of  former president John F. Kennedy’s famous  quote  which says “ ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”  Simply put, the question of what we want  is moot ,because getting want you want is easy provided you’re willing to make the necessary sacrifice.