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John Lee Hooker’s “The Motor City Is Burning” reflects the Detroit riots of July 1967, an event that inspired multiple artists to release songs as a response. The events that summer were ignited by racial tensions, economic inequality, and police brutality. Systemic racism in housing, jobs, and education fueled resentment, and a police raid on an unlicensed bar triggered the riots, fueled by deep frustrations over poor living conditions and political exclusion. In the fall of 1967, John Lee, a r