"If your conviction is not to go to war and kill people......whole lots of people have been killed for their convictions, put in jail for their convictions. Any time you have a high moral decent conviction you never have to worry about going crazy." Dick Gregory, 1969.
Dick Gregory says those words on his 1969 2LP, "The Light Side: The Dark Side" , and I used that section , plus more from his piece entitled 'Draft Resisters' for the track I am posting today. I had started a beat back in early September 2001, and had been meaning to finish it but had not gotten around to it, when I remember my Mom waking me up one morning to tell me there had been a plane crash in NYC, so I turned the TV on and watched as the 9/11 saga unfolded. I had been listening to a lot of the Dick Gregory album I mentioned and I found the perfect parts to lay over my instrumental, and I completed the song that same day. I had just turned 18 and I was aware of the military draft and now that this terrible tragedy had happened, I knew there was potential for a lot of young people to go to war, and I was not OK with that.
Disarray
