Bob Dylan, justice for Floyd and for America

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, JUNE 12 - Justice for George Floyd, for his family, for America: this is the heartfelt appeal of BobDylan, the iconic voice of the protest song for over half a century, in front of the killing by the police White of Minneapolis of yet another unarmed African American. The Nobel Prize for Literature, author of passages denouncing the arrogance of whites and race hatred such as "GeorgeJackson", "Only a Pawn in Their Game" and "The Lonesome Death ofHattie Carroll", was interviewed by the New York Times by telephone in his home in Malibu, California.
    "It endlessly sickened me to see George tortured to death in this way. It was beyond horror. Hopefully justice will come soon for the Floyd family and the nation," said 79-year-old Duluth, Minnesota, who in 1976 in Ballad "Hurricane", he sang against police brutality against black people. The history professor's interview with RiceDavid Brinkley came a week after the release, on June 19th, of the new album "Rough and Rowdy Ways", the first original songs from "Tempest" of 2012.
    The list of 10 tracks, released yesterday on Instagram, I included singles released in the months of the pandemic "False Prophet," "IContain Multitudes" and the 17-minute "Murder MostFoul" marathon on Kennedy's assassination. The new songs, composed in the cloister of the coronavirus quarantine, include titles such as "Crossing the Rubicon" and "Mother of Muses", "Goodbye JimmyReed" and "Key West", the latter two respectively a tribute to the Mississippi bluesman and to the triad "Ginsburg, Corso eKerouac ". (HANDLE).