The Boars

At first, after listening to the song we heard in class, I was a little torn on my opinion. After what people in South Africa have been through with aparthied I understand where this radical anger is coming from. However, that does not justify the killing of a group of people as the song promotes. Personally, I do believe the song should not be sung in public because it promotes that type of action. Their are plenty of songs lashing out against one group or another but this does take it a little over the line. I think that Bono was so shy to stand up fully against it because he does sympathize with the victems of aparthied and tries to help them. I think Bono was just caught in a tough situation so he made a statement that would stir up the least amount of backlash. Although, I do realize his statement caused a considerable amount of backlash, I think it could have been worse for him so he stuck by what he said.