U2’s American Obituary features Renee Nicole Good ICE shot on the Days of Ash EP
Irish rock band U2 invoked Renee Nicole Good — the anti-ICE activist who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minnesota last month — in their new song “American Obituary,” while calling for a “fake rebellion.”
The Grammy Award-winning group’s enigmatic song is the first single from their EP “Ash Days,” released Wednesday, which honors a Minneapolis mother of three who was killed while resisting immigration officials.
“Renee Good was born to die for nothing
American mother of three
The seventh day is January
Each child’s bullet you see”
The song mentions the time, 9:30 am, as when Good was shot three times on a Minneapolis street.
“His eye color
930 Minneapolis
Destroying domestic happiness
The explosion of three bullets, three children were kissed
Renee is a domestic terrorist”
Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, described Good as a “domestic terrorist” after the shooting.
The “anti-ICE hero” was accused of “stalking and harassing” ICE agents earlier in the day before he was caught on video blocking the road minutes before federal agents pulled over.
One of the officers came out and told Good to move his car. He refused orders before the agent walked around the car.
Footage from the scene captured Good appearing to run into the officer seconds before multiple shots were fired through the officer’s window.
Four shots were fired and three shots hit him in the chest, arm and head. The fourth bullet grazed him.
“He who cannot kill you will not die
America will wake up
Against false people
I love you more
There is hatred and love for war
I love you more
There is hatred and love for war”
In the song, the band says that immigrant activities are targeting places of worship, schools and streets where children used to be.
“Children are playing in the streets
In the churches where they pray
School teachers explain
America, America
People power!”
“Days of Ashes” was a surprise project from the group released on Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian season of Lent, marked by fasting, prayer and ashes placed on the foreheads of worshipers in the shape of a cross.
The group released by the legendary group – consisting of Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. – have joined dozens of other artists in releasing songs against the Trump administration’s mistreatment of illegal immigrants, including a performance in Minnesota.
Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny and the Dropkick Murphys have all spoken out against Trump and federal immigration officials.
Springsteen’s new song “Streets of Minneapolis” shows how “the burning city has fought fire and ice by the bootstraps of the residents,” which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army.”
Boss says he wrote the song a day after Alex Pretti, another anti-ICE protester, was shot and killed by US Customs and Border Agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.
“Dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent neighbors and the memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good,” he wrote, naming the two victims.
Billie Eilish yelled “F–k ICE” and said “nobody in the world is illegal is stolen” during her acceptance speech for Song of the Year at the 68th Grammy Awards.
