“Innocent Criminals” is a song that focuses on the situation we find ourselves in currently as a nation, especially as it pertains to the ICE raids happening across the country. Joshua focuses on the sometimes inhumane nature of humans in times of desperation and the hard truth in which we can all be to blame when terror strikes.
In the last decade, I’ve been digesting the dumpster fire America has lit. All the changes in policy and relations both domestic and globally. Changes in infrastructure, and in how we communicate and treat each other – from mainstream media, down to the stranger at the gas station. Of course there are problems all over the world, and we can’t disregard our collective responsibility to pull focus on these matters and help out however we can. But what’s happening on a national level is impacting everyone day in and day out. I’ve seen ICE raids happen in big cities, and in small towns. Everywhere I go there has been an unlawful arrest, brutal beating, and of course people are being killed.
This is a human problem, not a political one. This is person to person, day to day life. We are complicit if we don’t do something, say something, help out where we can. Because, of all the trouble in the world, this one lives in our cities, our towns, our neighborhoods, our streets, our front yards. So we have a responsibility to respond and take part in standing up for our community.
The point of this song is that no one is innocent in this situation. If you don’t speak about your concern, you aren’t helping, you aren’t protecting your neighbor. It takes the whole village to protect the few that are being attacked– you can’t just turn and look away.
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