What is anti-X Factor song Killing In The Name all about?

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It started with a crowd storming the police headquarters chanting "Guilty! Guilty!" - referring to the acquittal by an all-white jury of the four white officers accused of kicking and clubbing black motorist Rodney King.

In that context, it's impossible not to hear echoes of the racial tensions around the trial when frontman Zack de la Rocha links policemen to Klansmen. But it doesn't sound like a news report - it sounds like a sermon.

And religion is there in the next line too, a shouted "Killing in the name of!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8419446.stm

For those not aware the background to this is - a week or so back that a lone individual set up a Fecebook group using RATM's Killing In The Name as a protest against the X Factor's winner topping the UK charts at Xmas. The Facebook group currently has in excess of 900,000 followers.

It's also currently about square between the competitors @ c. 400,000 downloads each as of yesterday.

The main difference however is that Rage Against The Machine will donate all proceeds to Shelter.