Ric Wilson – “Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P”
Ric Wilson has shared a new single called “Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P,” named after Ida B. Wells and Marsha P. Johnson. It’s the Chicago rapper’s first new track since releasing his EP with Terrace Martin last month. “I got bodily autonomy/ And it’s and its policy is people over property/ Treat us like pieces of Monopoly, one day it’ll be nothing but the reach to eat,” he raps on it over a pumping disco beat. “Why they steady punching down, they don’t want to see us up” goes the chorus. He introduced the track with a long thread on Twitter about the contributions of Black women to the fight against injustice.
“when I think about next level courage to ball your fist up & look Patriarchy, racist,sexism, homophobia & transphobia right in the eye & fight against it, I feel like blk folk like Ida B Well and Marsha P Johnson are of the bravest of us all,” he wrote. “and if ima fight any injustice I wanna have the courage of blk queer & femme freedom fighters like them. I believe the liberation of black womxn and black trans womxn lead to the liberation of all black people.
“As it’s pride month and officially BLM Uprising part 2 I encourage people to study past movement that were jump start or organized by Black Women, LGBTQAI & Non Binary folks,” Wilson continued. “I encourage people to also study the History of policing and prisons here in the US & the laws made to keep Blk and Queer folk suppressed in this country for over 450 years. If we focus and start understanding the “why”, we will longer waste time arguing on the “what.””
Listen below.