8.7.23
Jill Scott version of the National Anthem.
3ed verse of the National anthem:
“Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets / That this place doesn’t smile on you colored child / Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands / But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased / Oh say, does this truth hold any weight / This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves!”
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Frankly it breaks my heart that any American would feel such pain
1.4.23
GOP hates Libraries and people who read
Today's GOP is the American Taliban.
The Taliban forbid girls to go to school. Conservatives the world over apparently believe that women are nothing more than incubators.
People in Afghanistan under Taliban rule would hide radios in the dirt underneath their homes. If the “Morality Police" caught them listening to decadent, corrupting Western music there'd be hell to pay. Gotta keep 'em living in the 11th century.
As the late great writer Ray Bradbury once said, “You don't need to burn books to destroy a civilization; just get people to stop reading them.” He also said that in the event of a total societal catastrophe, libraries would be more valuable than hospitals to rebuild civilization. Due to all of the wisdom contained inside their walls.
That's why conservatives don't like libraries. Books make you think; therefore you're more likely to be a liberal.