Whaaaaaaaat hahaha. Never heard or seen that one. ...I can kind of see why.

Because in order to have a good protest song you need something that's actually worth protesting. I like how you brought up Staten Island and Ferguson incidents this past summer... THAT'S your basis for a protest? Two black men killed by police, one who had just robbed a convenience store and then assaulted an officer which resulted in him eating lead, and the other with a record of 30 prior arrests (!!!) refusing to cooperate with police which led to him being subdued by chokehold when his chronic asthma kicked in and finished him off.

And we aren't going to get any anti-war protest songs because a Democrat is in the White House... funny how that works. Back in the 60s and 70s it wasn't until a Republican was in the white house after 8 years of Democrats that the Vietnam war protests really took off, and from 1968-'72 is when most of the popular anti-war songs were recorded.

There were plenty of political / anti-war songs during the 80s too when Reagan was in office, then things were toned down in the mid-late 90s when Clinton was in office despite his bombing Iraq multiple times among other things. Then of course when Bush was in office everyone and anyone was making anti-war / anti-Bush songs. But now that a Democrat is once again in office, despite escalating the conflict in Afghanistan and getting the US involved in Libya, as well as the rise in Islamic extremism not just in the Middle East but around the world, no more protest songs have been written.

Know why? Because, ironically, all protest songs must be politically correct.

Yeeeeaaah, it was kind of an outlandish thing. It pretty much destroyed her radio career since everyone was pro-Bush at the time.

There's also Uprising by Muse, although I'm not sure if it can be considered a protest song.

Well, this came out around the same time, and it's not exactly pro-Bush:

EDIT: For some reason, the embedded video is not showing up in this post, so here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox0Q4YIdnGI

It's pretty much my favorite Eminem song.

I said I wasn't trying to start a political discussion here. People are obviously pissed and I want to know if they're expressing it through song. If they consider these things worth protesting then writing a protest song shouldn't be much of a stretch. CSNY were recording Ohio less than three weeks after the Kent State shootings, so I wouldn't accept 'give it time' as an answer.

I guess you've never heard the phrase "Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today." Besides, make up your mind -- you say there is nothing worth writing protest songs about right now, then complain that no one would dare write a protest song while Obama is in office. Keep your political commentary to yourself, this is not in the political discussion forum.

Daaaaaamn, now that's what I'm thinking about.

Wow, I've never seen this before. Props to Eminem. 

I wonder why Madonna was ostricized and not Eminem? Maybe it just has to do with the fact that she's a woman and people didn't expect/want that kind of content from her? Really strange..

I have a couple more rap songs that could count as protest songs. They decry not politics, however, but the complete joke that mainstream radio is. Well, the second one takes a deeper message than that.

Dead Prez - "Radio Freqs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMN9MY0oII

Lupe Fiasco - "State Run Radio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKYUtemTs0

I've noticed the best political/protest songs can be interpreted entirely differently outside of the era. Songs like; 'Born in the USA', 'Rockin' in the Free World', 'Fortunate Son', 'Pink Houses', are now seen as patriotic.

Sundin13 is right about Rise Against. Since their fourth album they've made a lot of political songs. My mind immediately went to Immortal Technique and I forgot about them.

Yeah, it was out around the beginning of Bush's second term, right after his re-election. I think by that time, people were coming down from the 9/11 hysteria and cynicism toward the government was  starting to take hold after the Patriot Act and fatigue of the war in Afghanistan.