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Here'a list of just some of the events and characters spliced together in Rihanna's video, "American Oxygen," which she released today:
- Rihanna on the steps of City Hall, silhouettes of soldiers marching by.
- President Obama accompanied by First Lady Michelle at his inauguration ceremony
- Protests
- White family laughing hysterically with dog
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Unemployment lines
- Immigration protests
- Migrant workers riding on the top of a train
- Sea warfare
- Explosions
- JFK, Jr. saluting his father's casket at his funeral
- Black Power fists at Mexico City Olympics in 1968
- The Beatles exiting a plane
- Screaming fangirls
- Two young black girls in matching pink dresses
- Bob Marley
- Astronauts
- A rodeo
- The Statue of Liberty
- Pollution
- A space rocket
- View of Earth from a spaceship
- Rihanna strapped to a parachute
- A man on the Moon
- Bowling Green
- The Stock Market
- Money being printed
- Occupy Wall Street
- A homeless veteran
- Police brutality
- Football
- More police brutality
- Baseball game
- Still more police brutality
- Fireworks
- Explosions
- The first World Trade tower hit on 9/11
- A wistful looking boy
- A drug deal
- Jail
- Two boys in a field wearing bucket hats
- The Mexican border
- People climbing across the border
- Border patrol officer looking at screen
- Missiles
- Baseball
- Farmers planting
- Woman sewing
- Raising the flag on Iwo Jima
- Ferguson protests
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and wake
- A serious looking tween.
- Police brutality
- Muhammad Ali
- Police brutality
- General American dreams and American disappointments