Midnight Special
Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 11:28pm
We don't have this anymore. It's not the same. Somehow, society changed from progressive racial acceptance and tolerance to apathetic ambivalence.
I think it was disco. I liked the Bee Gees, hell were they talented. But shit, they went too far. We all went too far and now look.
Maybe we'll have another chance.
This is what I liked, this is what I believed. This is what I still believe. It never left me. It never left many of us. It's waiting to be reborn.
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Growing up,
I had a number of Native American friends, living close to a reservation. I traversed the world in my early adulthood, meeting and making friends from many different countries, cultures, and races.
We're all humans, that's all. That's what we were moving toward in the sixties but too many today didn't get the memo. They can't let go.
It's true. We have a problem. We shouldn't but we do.
..we can't let go...
that's all there is. I think all Americans are still angry with all Europeans, because we made them
flee the continent. People never forget the history or what they believe the history was all about.
I have given up on folks being able to forgive and forget.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Flashback!
You reminded me of The King Biscuit Flower Hour:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Flower_Hour
Best radio show ever!
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Agree. Great stuff!
Listened to it many a night in Rottenchester while going to school there. They played stuff one rarely heard on "regular (am /fm) radio."
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
There was never any real racial harmony.
Not in terms of the real racial bugaboo, involving the descendants of slaves on American turf.
200 years of slavery, maybe a little Reconstruction, 90 years of Jim Crow, and then a couple of civil rights acts, a little bit of affirmative action, and America told the descendants of slaves that they were good to go. The result?
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/1-demographic-trends-and-econo...
That's how the theft of legacy works, when it's multiplied and magnified over time.
“One of the things I love about the American people is that we can hold many thoughts at once” - Kamala Harris
MOVE FORWARD
Try a web search for "move forward [any politician]" fill in your fave between the brackets. One thing the Rs do, at least they try all the time, REPEAL. Where are the D repealers? Bernie? NOPE Incrementally too late, but thanks anyway.
Passing laws for the 1%, priceless! Haha I wish. I wish they all didn't have some price that cancels my VOTE every time, thanks Citizens United.
good luck
lemmings
Did you say
lemmingsDemocrats?"Lemmings" copyright 1991 Psygnosis (DOS version)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Living on the trail of tears
I live near two old forts where the Cherokee were rounded up and sent to Oklahoma. The rich plantation owning Cherokee typically took the steamboat. They were all sold down the river, and this rich woodland that was once the realm of the Cherokee has been severely degraded.
Our country was established by genocide of native peoples and enslavement of Africans. We still can't face our great sins, and first nation people and people of color are still oppressed in the United Snakes of America.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
It might have been disco,
or it might have been cocaine. When did coke become the drug of choice for upwardly mobile hipsters? Where coke prevailed, the Revolution failed.
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where coke prevailed
And the saying of The Anarchist Cookbook remains true as well: the Bolsheviks of the Revolution are long-haired pot smokers!
Maybe not so much with the long hair these days; pattern baldness takes its toll....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
For history buffs,
A wonderfully detailed (and long) essay about Beats, Folkies, Dylan... where it all came from & where it went.
Penetrating Aether: The Beat Generation and Allen Ginsberg’s America
by Sean Wilentz
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bob-dylan-the-beat-generation-a...
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Article has problems
I had to copypaste into Word to get a smooth flow and read it all. Don't know what's up with it, but the formatting got strung out in several places.
Interesting, though.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Could be my fault,
I'll try again...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bob-dylan-the-beat-generation
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