Black Power from artist Hank Willis Thomas Gil Scott- Heron who wrote this popular hip hop poem to music in 1969, did not live to see he was wrong, in part. When RUN DMC came on stage wearing Adidas sneakers, who would have thought that the Johnny Mathis outfit with suits and patent leather shoes,
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Ryan Bailey “Mississippi, God damn!”. She was sitting at the piano, filled with rage about mistreatments of black people in the described “free world”. Alabama, Tennessee, fire hoses, biting dogs, raging white supremacists. Nina Simone, jazz aficionado, stalwart, could not take it anymore, “me and my people are bout due” she wrote, and sang. She wanted to be boundless, FREE!!!
The American vision of what? There are a billion things we have thoughts or visions of. More recently, trying to inhabit another planet, to have dominion over the lesser. Who are these people? You have heard of them, with names like Musk and Bezos. According to Salary Finance, two thirds of our working population are
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One way to conquer a people is to create a new language to communicate with the general population. This is what the Dutch Settlers did in South Africa in the 17th century. It has been proven, to control the mind is to create a new system. (Artificial Intelligence?) The Dutch settlers tried there’s using brute force and weaponry.
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Making a difference in the show’s presentation is one of three tap dancers. “Baltimore”, sung by Nina in 1978, was not new to music. The city was part of the East Coast tour for African Americans, making a living as musicians. Written by a white man (Randy Newman) with a reggae beat (Jamaican), was originally
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From Martha Jackson, RED ROAD DISSEMBLANCE. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th President, had…
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The King’s throne. “I AM SENDING YOU OUT LIKE SHEEP INTO THE MIDST OF WOLVES, SO BE WISE AS SERPEENTS AND INNOCENT AS DOVES” (Matthew 10:16) What happens when the dove does get harmed, is it natural to think that it will cry and thus die? The dove has become a symbol of hope. That is
