That would be a reference to the poetry of the Watts Riot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots

The actual title of the article is

Listen carefully…”Burn it down, man”

Because the revolution starts . . .
now!

Large numbers of people in many countries have reached the point of exasperation with political-economic systems of power that privilege a small minority and treat growing numbers of other citizens with disdain and, in many cases, fatal force. When ignorance and fear of other people of color are thrown into this mix, we get situations like some racist European and British responses to migrants, or Donald Trump supporters’ anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican hysteria in the United States. Israel, Arab societies, Iran, Burma, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and a hundred other countries around the world suffer the same human deficiencies.

Well I guess getting shot down like dogs by the LAPD could be classified as a human deficiency.

This usually happens when parents realize that their children are doomed to lifetimes of poverty, vulnerability, and suffering, with a real probability of early death. It also happens when young people themselves appreciate that most of them have no available paths to a normal life of opportunity, well-being, and dignity, for they have forever been denied both their citizenship rights and their very humanity.

I must say, that is a very succint description of America's political turmoil. Leading perhaps to an epiphany?

That frightening moment highlights their weakness, but also makes them realize that they are not helpless. They resist in their own minds at first, then they resist on the street, in the media, and in the courts and political systems if those opportunities are available to them. Each person, movement, and society chooses different ways to resist oppression, always with different results. Sometimes resistance uses criminal means similar to the ones used against the resisters, like assassination, terrorism, and killing innocent bystanders.

The act of resistance at that moment occurs without much thought to whether or not it achieves the aim of ending the oppressive system that prevails. It sends the message that people will not forever acquiesce in their own dehumanization and oppression, and regular deaths. When resistance uses criminal tactics like assassinating police officers or bombing restaurants and shopping malls, it completes and expands the circle of criminality. Mostly, resistance around the world has been non-violent, civil, and political, which was the case with the epic Arab uprisings in 2011 that were perhaps the most massive example of what I am talking about.

So maybe the Watts Riot will be peaceful this time around.

Great article! http://agenceglobal.com/index.php?show=article&Tid=2994