Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:32 PM

Ken Burch (50,254 posts)

Nina Simone-Mississippi Goddam

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

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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
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

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:39 PM

zeemike (18,998 posts)

1. K&R

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:47 PM

ret5hd (15,631 posts)

2. thank you.

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:48 PM

AsahinaKimi (20,776 posts)

3. cool song

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:58 PM

villager (26,001 posts)

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

...the 60's for her.

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

Goddamn.

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:36 PM

carolinayellowdog (3,247 posts)

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

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

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Wed Jun 26, 2013, 04:06 PM

carolinayellowdog (3,247 posts)

9. She has been remembered in her hometown

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.

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:23 PM

Dawson Leery (18,258 posts)

7. k/r

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Tue Jun 25, 2013, 11:30 PM

mojowork_n (2,354 posts)

8. Another good one from back then...

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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