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Today is International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
This morning I learned of the effort by singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy to focus attention on the injustice experienced by black songwriters and producers.
As a performer I can support the claim that modern popular music was built on the foundation of Blues and Gospel music, penned in large measure by black artists.
Led Zeppelin covered black blues artists heavily, but that isn't widely known.
Little Richard, whose music was covered by everybody from Elvis to the Beatles, got no royalties from any of them. It is an outrage.
Duke,
In that same spirit. I was thrilled the American Rescue Packageackage included loan forgiveness for black farmers. A small step, long overdue.
The land-healing work of George Washington Carver
Loan forgiveness is a good start. I am really encouraged by the increased awareness of the issue…
But, I will always include a mention of indigenous people who have been similarly disenfranchised.
Democrats need to see this is a golden opportunity to fix a bunch of things that need to be fixed.
The surest way to tell just how good a thing, is that it’s got vaporous Blanche in a full on Scarlett O’Hara southern belle lathering Antebellum melt down . . .
https://www.bing.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/03/13/lindsey-graham-decries-reparations-in-covid-relief-bill/amp/
The loan forgiveness in the ARP applies to black, latinx, asian, and indigenous farmers.
Recently, I taught the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry to middle-school students. It’s an inspiring story of black family farmers in 1930s Mississippi. Students were shocked by the lynching and degrading Jim Crow tribulations that the family endured. A land grab is a central struggle in the novel.
Yet there are even fewer black farmers now, than in 1930s Mississippi.
shocking.
Yes, it is. I spent a lot of time in Selma in 2019 with black farmers in Dallas County. All of them had incredibly shocking stories of the history of their land – and their decades-long struggle to 'not lose it'. It's a story I use often anytime there is a 'cancel culture' theme to a discussion (including indigenous issues).
One outstanding element of that "fix a bunch of things" is Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary.
Another is the money specifically going to tribal governments, equivalent to what is going to states. American Rescue Plan has a number of things various Navajo, Pueblo, Ute and Sioux leaders have commented favorably on.
You can watch the confirmation of Deb Haaland live here.
So it shall be…an American first. #ElectionsMatter
…and yet another great pick by Biden:
Biden picks Janie Hipp for USDA general counsel
That's some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Thanks for posting!
Did Chuck Berry get anything from The Beach Boys? Their early stuff was all Berry.
I don't know, but it would surprise me if he did.
John might've also called it Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who influenced Chuck Berry. Of course someone must've influenced her, and so on…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
Someone has some big shoes to fill:
Colorado economic development director Betsy Markey stepping down
But then you go and hit us with this? Bummed again. Markey was a true public servant. A big loss for CO.
She was an amazing Congresswoman for the 4th...nobody that followed her worked half as hard as she did during her short tenure. She wasn't intimidated by the yahoos at town hall meetings; she wasn't afraid to talk about the effects of climate change on our agricultural community. A true gem – followed by a con and a (clueless) clown.
Any chance she lives in CD3 now and might want another government job?
Big shoes, indeed. And success while wearing them and dancing backwards, to play on the quote from Ann Richards: "“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
I hope there is a strong internal candidate to measure any others Gov. Polis may be able to convince to apply.
If there's anyone in the Gov's office looking statewide they should take a peek over the mountain range and look at the guy running the ED group in the San Luis Valley. I'm partial; at one time he was a 'Wray boy' who then went on to do some really good stuff in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Yuma, Arizona.
You can tell him (or the staff looking at his inbox) yourself …
https://www.colorado.gov/governor/ … far right option is Contact US