Posted on 04/04/2018 3:03:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Google gathered a star-studded cast of celebrities, including Alicia Keys, Laverne Cox, and Oprah Winfrey, to help celebrate Dr. Maya Angelou.
Today's Doodle honoring the poet, civil rights activist, and author on what would have been her 90th birthday is nothing short of a masterpiece. When you click the homepage illustration, you'll hear the words of Angelou's empowering poem "Still I Rise" read aloud as drawings illustrating each line fill the screen. The recorded reading from Angelou is interspersed with sections read by Keys, Cox, Winfrey, America Ferrera, Martina McBride, and Angelou's son, Guy Johnson.
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Yet they can’t seem to remember any important dates.
I have always thought that Michael Savage missed his calling by not coming out with an album of him reading Maya Angelou poetry in his Bernie Sanders imitation.
....so enjoy the show folks and be happy and feel good about yourselves.... for tomorrow you’re
utes will go back to killing each other....ain’t that right BLM?
And yet Easter they do nothing. Bing always had an Easter theme.
Her poetry is highly overrated. Full of self loathing references. Her books get bought but nobody reads them.
To be a good writer and poet one must be a fairly decent philosopher. She isn’t and just culturally mimicking better literary ideas and she practically fails at that.
GMWAT At best third rate doggerel
At my last job before I retired, the Assistant Director of the department was an airy-fairy, head-in-the-clouds lady and she loooved Maya Angelou. I told everyone that I had only one request for my birthdays: Never, EVER, give me a card with anything by Maya Angelou! Don’t even think about it! (Low gag threshold.)
By lauding her substandard dross, Google falls guilty to the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It is hideous. Poor crayon “art” work to illustrate a terrible “poem.” I didn’t bother with the sound.
Works by black writers, artists, musicians, journalists, etc. can no longer be judged on the same objective standards of quality that whites are subjected to.
Because of past injustices, real or imagined, blacks (and other minorities) must now receive compensation as part of the “reparations” movement. That applies as much to artistic and intellectual pursuits as it does to financial matters.
It’s the same phenomenon that allows illiterates to be graduated from high school with high GPA scores.
It’s the same phenomenon that allows the work of spray can vandals to be considered “fine art”.
It’s the same phenomenon that allows filth-ridden violence-promoting spewing by rappers to be considered legitimate music worthy of analysis and praise by learned academics and professional critics.
Reduced to a single word, it is “liberalism”.
They didn’t have a word to say about Easter- not that I saw anyways.
I never want to be so smart that I understand what the hell that leftist sesquipedalian babbler was talking about.
Angelou and Google are simply not in my sphere of influence.
That affirmative action BS has greatly inflamed racial tensions, as “preferred minorities” with fabricated diplomas, degrees, etc. find out quickly that they are generally worthless in the private sector. The government hires as many as possible to redistribute wealth, but they still resent the “white privilege” of being educated and employable.
The real stumbling block is professional exams; 12 years of fake education simply doesn’t cut it. A friend’s daughter p!ssed away years in law school to basically end up working as a receptionist; she had no hope of passing the bar exam, and was given an “honorable mention” degree.
The system perpetuates itself because teachers and professors aren’t permitted to point out that the emperor has no clothes - all discussion of this failed attempt at “leveling the playing field” is squelched.
Woke up this morning, did a quick survey of kinks, aches and appendages, and thought those very words.
Happy happy.
Yep,he could have really made something of himself.
I’m so glad I got my degree in English Literature before Maya Angelou was required reading.
We read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pope, Emerson, Wordsworth, et al—you know, dead white guys.
I noticed for a few years they weren’t calling her “doctor”. I guess those days are over.
I’m so glad I got my degree in English Literature before Maya Angelou was required reading.
We read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pope, Emerson, Wordsworth, et al—you know, dead white guys.
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Affirmative action applied to our culture. Great. Drivel written by a black woman should be celebrated as much as brilliance written by a white man, because it’s racist and sexist to do otherwise.
Ah, the wise and tolerant left.
They also have a bizarre definition of the word “stunning” (and, for that matter, “doodle”). Then again, “stunning” is a word they regularly applied to Michelle Obama (”she looks just stunning today!” “OMG! What a stunning, wonderful first last!” etc. ad nauseam). This little cartoon isn’t “stunning.” It’s a childish little cartoon. But I guess they excuse that by calling it a “doodle.”
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