For you: the classic Evolution Control Committee remix of Public Enemy’s ‘By The Time I Get To Arizona,’ born and fed so joyously from that time when since-impeached Arizona governor (and used-car salesman) Ev Mecham decided that it wasn’t really necessary to dedicate a whole day to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a political event that sucked the home post of the buffalo soldiers down to the bottom of the American shame drain. ‘What’s a smilin’ face when the whole state’s racist?’ asked Chuck, and my baby brain went : ( and later I think Public Enemy opened for U2 in Phoenix and came out in Klan robes for a one-song set. Let’s listen to the song and reminisce about probably the worst governor governor-poor Arizona ever had.

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