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“A noose was put in my family’s garage.” Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello remembers the racism he endured as a kid

Tom Morello live in 2016.

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has revealed the racist treatment he endured when he was growing up.

The 60-year-old, who was born in Harlem but spent much of his childhood in the Libertyville suburb of Chicago, says in the new issue of Metal Hammer that he went through both “microaggressions” and “macro-aggression” for being mixed race. These included a noose being put up in his family’s garage when he was 13 years old.

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