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Judy Clay's avatar

Someone famous once wrote "Mississippi Goddamn". Thank you Miss Simone.

Ironically, I'm just finishing Isabel Wilkinson's masterpiece, " The Warmth of Other Suns",

a historical non fiction narrative fucking masterpiece of the great Black migration from 1900-1970.

I did my graduate work on the initial Black migration from 1876-1920. Her work is magnificent, she won the Pulitzer, she's young her second book, "Caste" finally helped me understand why that traitorous, Nazi motherfucker got 73 million votes in 2020.

As I blather on, the story on Mrs. Till and her courage in demanding an open casket for her son will arrive later this year in theaters. It's called, "Till".

Finally that fucking cunt Bryant, FINALLY admitted last year she made up the story.

To add salt to the wound a Mississippi grand jury refused to indict her for filing a false police report.

Even though I am one, I fucking hate white people.

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Peter Schulze's avatar

Yes. Nina Simone brilliantly implored us to act against injustice, and I hope for our survival that we're still listening and willing to fight. Save the Arts and save quality education in this country!

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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

Judy, I hope that you are ok that I added Miss Simone's voice

to your rich comment and a poem by Langston Hughes.

Mississippi—1955 (1955)

by Langston Hughes

(To the Memory of Emmett Till)

Oh what sorrow!

oh, what pity!

Oh, what pain

That tears and blood

Should mix like rain

And terror come again

To Mississippi.

Come again?

Where has terror been?

On vacation? Up North?

In some other section

Of the nation,

Lying low, unpublicized?

Masked—with only

Jaundiced eyes

Showing through the mask?

Oh, what sorrow,

Pity, pain,

That tears and blood

Should mix like rain

In Mississippi!

And terror, fetid hot,

Yet clammy cold

Remain.

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Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiAtwQZnHs

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