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Question of the Day: What if the streets had no name?
“Where the Streets Have No Name,” was the name of a single released in 1987 by the band U2 from their Joshua Tree Album. Some years before Bono, the lead singer of the band, was told by a man in Belfast, Northern Ireland that he could tell you the race, religion and income level of anyone in the city just by telling him the name of the street they lived on. The realization that our cities are often divided in such ways collided with the economic disparity Bono experienced when he visited Ethiopia. So he wrote the song from the view of an Ethiopian man envisioning a world where there was no separation between rich and poor; a world where the streets had no name.
What if the streets had no name?
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