Fire From The Gods released a music video for their song “Break The Cycle”, which is off their latest album American Sun.
In the video, Fire From the Gods’ AJ Channer explains what it is like for him to live as a black man in America.
“You know it’s 2020. We’re still having the conversation and we’re still in fear of our lives that as a black man in America that we can make it home. Let me live. We want to live. That’s not something I want to have to teach my kids. My mom had to teach me about that. My dad had to talk to me about that, about the way I’m supposed to deal with police. We have to continue to press the issue, because if one is not free, none of us are free.”
The video shows recent newspaper headlines going up in flames and shows images from protests to enforce the message “Break The Cycle”. Channer traveled to Minneapolis and Atlanta to participate in the recent protests and some of the footage used in the video comes from those trips.
Juneteenth is celebrated every year on June 19th to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865 Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas proclaiming that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The first celebration of Juneteenth happened the following year in 1866 with food, singing and the reading of spirituals.
