Chapter 2335: Cat Getan Music Festival (83)

Many fans thought that this picture with this sentence was precisely speaking out for this black person. But soon someone noticed something wrong. The "Cat Getan" in "remember Cat Getan" didn't seem to be a place name.

Because English grammar is relatively strict, Cat Getan is treated as a simple place name with special prepositions and sentence patterns. If Biggie's meaning is actually "remember this day in Cat Getan", the grammar and the sentence he wrote now are not the same. If his meaning is that we should never forget this tragedy that happened on the land of Cat Getan, the difference is even bigger.

This sentence is more like we will always remember Cat Getan as a person, because only when the name appears there, this sentence is relatively smooth.

If someone else sent this sentence, many people might feel it's uncultured, casually wrote a sick sentence to rub heat, but Biggie is at least a famous rap singer, and rap singers are masters of playing lyrics, not enough to make such a low-level mistake.

Thinking of the east and west coast giants both changing black backgrounds and posting articles at the same time, although they are also black, it is normal to strive for rights for black people, but they are in Cat Getan now. Could it be that they actually know some inside news?

Opinions differ, public opinion exploded. Just at this moment, 2pac recorded a video and posted it online.

He sat in the hotel bedroom, aimed the camera at his face, his expression was very sad, and he was silent in front of the lens for a full three minutes before saying, "I am very sorry, a friend has left us forever, and the world has not yet truly seen his talent. This will be an unbearable loss for the entire American rap world."

"I cannot describe everything I saw in this city. He once spoke for this place so bravely. We had just started our friendship, and we also said we would make a joint album together."

When saying this, 2pac had already shed tears. He choked and said, "I cannot imagine how painful he was when he died. God cannot explain either, why a warrior who spoke for the people so bravely had 15 bullet holes in his soul."

He took a deep breath, pressed his lips tightly, and the expression on his face turned from sadness to anger, "I said it long ago, I said it long ago, this kind of thing will happen to us again and again, and some of us attribute all mistakes to ourselves, so tragedies will happen again and again."

"This is not, absolutely not our mistake. If the police fired, then a white person would be hit by one shot, and there would never be the later 14 shots. That is their sin, not ours."

"If we can never firmly believe this, then the next person crying in front of the lens will be you, friends. Don't continue to wait, don't let these things happen to you again."

The video ended, and it was no surprise that it caused a sensation on the internet again, making people finally understand what "Cat Getan" referred to.

The only rap singer who could be referred to by "Cat Getan" was the Cat Getan kid who had just released one album but was red and purple, and anyone could see that the road ahead was broad and the future was limitless.

This was very traceable. Although most of the Cat Getan kid's songs had very heavy themes, his way of expression revealed a kind of happy black humor, which could show that he was not a particularly serious and rigid person, and should also be very young.

And he was quite aggressive, his mouth was very poisonous, which also matched the performance of the person who was shot in the bar. Many rap singers stood up and said that the output of his words like pearls before he died would win the championship in many underground rap competitions.

And this also fit the speculation of the vast majority of fans. The Cat Getan kid was indeed a black person, which made them even more convinced.

If they didn't even believe the words of the rap giants who were local in Cat Getan and had a high reputation, then who else could they believe?

This made the explosion of public opinion even more violent, almost affecting the whole United States, and even many traditional news media of the Redneck faction started reporting this matter. Most of the attacks were aimed at the FBI.

But the people were not stupid either. They knew this was not an FBI problem. When this victim didn't reveal his skin color, the agents didn't even look at him. As soon as he exposed that he was a black person, he was hit by 15 shots. Could this be an FBI management problem?

You say he has vigilance, he sees a strange person standing in front of him dancing and doesn't fire. You say he has no vigilance, he can fire 15 shots at a human, hitting every place that can be hit. Isn't this contradictory?

The vigorous black movement broke out.

Behind this, some bigger storms were brewing.

As everyone knows, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there were no winners in the Cold War, and both sides were dragged to exhaustion.

But in fact, what was even more exhausted was Europe. The reason why the Cold War was the Cold War was because the US and the Soviet Union looked at each other across the sea, but Europe was on the same continent as the Soviet Union, and had to worry about becoming the first battlefield of the hot war at any time.

Capitalist economy inevitably had upward and downward periods. The upward period was fine. No matter what the big block next to it wanted to do, everyone enjoyed welfare, earned money, and raised families peacefully.

But once entering the downward period, inflation was serious, prices soared, wages didn't rise, everyone couldn't earn money, couldn't live, and satisfaction with the government dropped in a straight line.

At this time, the government had to adopt new economic policies to revitalize the market. The problem was that this required space for operation. Most European countries had only one acre and three cents of land, the market was really limited, and there was no space for operation, so there was no talk of revitalization.

So they decided to unite. Apart from dealing with the pressure from the East, it was actually also to revitalize the economy. This was also the background of the birth of the European Community.

Because the Soviet Union didn't dissolve, European countries couldn't eat the legacy. In order to maintain the government, most small countries could only find ways to be self-sufficient, and relying on their own market couldn't do it, so they had to find ways to unite other markets. 【2335

And the most important step in uniting other markets was the use of a unified currency; under the pressure of the Soviet Union's own gasping economy, the Euro appeared nearly 10 years early.

In the spring of 1992, the European Community officially transformed into the European Union and issued the Euro.

Although European countries are small individually, there are many of them after all, and united, they form a very large market; plus, as the union deepened day by day, the unity led to the EU membership standard being: "Never mind what historical grievances you have, just come."

Not only did small countries like the Vatican join the EU to enter the mainstream market and seek survival, but even many countries with a tradition of neutrality joined as well; while permanent neutral countries like Switzerland did not explicitly state they were joining the EU, they all announced they would join the European unified market and abide by its rules.

In this way, European ties became much tighter, and the most core countries even completely crossed that line, beginning to move toward European political centralization.

It is hard to say who the biggest beneficiary of this situation was, but the biggest victim was certainly the United States.

As everyone knows, the later United States basically relied entirely on harvesting Europe, which could also be called the culprit for the EU's later lack of unity and poor performance; once European countries united, the United States' harvesting was no longer so convenient.

The more stable the European market became and the faster the internal circulation system was established, the harder it was to complete deindustrialization.

Although the core European countries loved to stir up trouble, their foundation was still very thick during this period; with unity, an almost complete industrial system, and a market to revitalize the economy—still the same saying: if you can be a human, who would want to be a dog?

It could be said that the United States watched as Europe became increasingly indifferent to its NATO duties; back in the day, it was the United States that encouraged Europe to unite, all to use NATO to contain the Soviet Union, but "I let you unite, I didn't let you unite like this; you form the limbs and then kick the head away, right?"

But European politicians didn't care about that; when it comes to the superiority of the old European Anglo-Saxon flag, American white supremacy has to take a backseat. Historically, they were in such a bad state and still didn't give up their sense of superiority; now that they were rising up, they had to properly distinguish between father and son.

For Europe, NATO was originally about befriending the distant and attacking the near, but after it was established, they discovered that the distant one was actually the dark one.

Historically, they had no choice; after all, they were in a worse state, so they could only walk down one path to the end, but now it was different—they weren't that bad, and they were doing okay themselves.

With the power of choice, whether I lean on the railing to gaze at the North Atlantic or turn my head to look at the scenery of Eastern Europe is up to me.

Of course, the United States wouldn't let Europe succeed so easily; for these old aristocrats who couldn't see reality, it had to strike with a heavy fist, but just as it raised its fist, its own backside caught fire.

After the Mexican Revolution broke out, Europe gained a fairly long period of breathing room and development; the United States decided to save its own backside, and it did so in a flustered and frantic state—the Europeans were thrilled.

In the summer of 1995, the EU announced further strengthening of cooperation and simultaneously renamed the organization the European Union of Nations.

The United States saw this and thought, "Fine, fine, that's how you want to play, right? The Soviet Union is about to die, and now a European Union pops up; watch me prick you and be done with it."

Now the United States had just planned to prick the European Union, but Oliver ran to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union came back to life.

The United States was just like Tom the Cat: catch Jerry and get hit by the bird, catch the bird and get hit by Jerry; busy with Europe, the Soviet Union, and Mexico, and it hadn't managed any of the three well.

Of course, the United States' foundation wasn't weak; as the biggest beneficiary of World War II, although its domestic economy wasn't as good as in the Golden Age, it could previously be considered barely sustainable.

As a result, riots broke out domestically as well.

The black man George Floyd, who was choked to death by police, was born in the wrong era; at that time, the United States was already the absolute boss, and this was just their internal ethnic conflict—no one had the authority to point fingers.

But the black movement erupting now was not like that; the fire of the Communist International still had a breath of life, the Soviet Union confronting the United States hadn't died yet, the European Union was watching from the sidelines, and the great Eastern power was watching the fun without fearing the scale.

Before a unipolar international pattern had formed, it was truly the case that if a mouse pooped on anyone's floor, it would be dragged out by the other side's media to be pointed at, let alone something this big.

Once the movement broke out, before any major public opinion wave had formed on American soil, Moscow had already overheated and exploded several printing presses, the price of ordinary ink and paper in the EU tripled, and with the Atlantic as the dividing line, the countries on the other side could be said to be beating drums and setting off firecrackers.

The United States didn't expect that before it could figure out a way to suppress this splash of water at home, the tsunami from outside had already arrived.

And what was more fatal was that for capitalist countries, market confidence is a very important thing; this public opinion shock, which seemed not to hurt the bones or muscles, ultimately buried a huge disaster.