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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:32 PM Jun 2013

Nina Simone-Mississippi Goddam

A good response to today's Supreme Kourt decision destroying the VRA.

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Nina Simone-Mississippi Goddam (Original Post) Ken Burch Jun 2013 OP

K&R zeemike Jun 2013 #1

thank you. ret5hd Jun 2013 #2

cool song AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #3

My dad used to play that in the 60's Sent a link to someone recently thinking it would evoke villager Jun 2013 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #5

She had quite a remarkable life, and deserves to be remembered carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #6

She has been remembered in her hometown carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #9

k/r Dawson Leery Jun 2013 #7

Another good one from back then... mojowork_n Jun 2013 #8

zeemike

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1. K&R

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:39 PM

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ret5hd

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2. thank you.

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:47 PM

Jun 2013

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

3. cool song

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:48 PM

Jun 2013

villager

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4. My dad used to play that in the 60's Sent a link to someone recently thinking it would evoke

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:58 PM

Jun 2013

...the 60's for her.

Without realizing that it would also evoke 21st century America.

Goddamn.

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carolinayellowdog

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6. She had quite a remarkable life, and deserves to be remembered

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:36 PM

Jun 2013

not just for the musical legacy but for political engagement and the high price she paid for it-- withholding taxes as a political statement during the Vietnam war made her an exile for the last thirty years of her life

carolinayellowdog

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9. She has been remembered in her hometown

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Wed Jun 26, 2013, 05:06 PM

Jun 2013

Tryon is a beautiful town, and I'm grateful that her family and friends could see a statue erected there in her honor. This story from 2010 indicates they were planning to restore her birthplace-- hope they succeeded.

Dawson Leery

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7. k/r

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 08:23 PM

Jun 2013

mojowork_n

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8. Another good one from back then...

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Wed Jun 26, 2013, 12:30 AM

Jun 2013

Les McCann (piano) and Eddie Harris (sax) at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, "Compared to What."

"Possession is the motivation that is hangin' up the goddamned nation.
Looks like we always end up in a rut."

No matter how much you like (or don't really care for jazz), wait a couple of minutes, through the instrumental
intro, for the words:

Has anything really changed since then?

Trying to make it a real Compared to What?

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