Oh for goodness’ sake sometimes I seriously wonder if we shouldn’t re-segregate for their sake and ours and be done with it.
Oh but then we’d have to do without the music. Love the music in this video by the way.
If I may:
It really captures the drama and excitement of contemporary urban living as well as the deeper undertones of a life of ease provided by grateful fellow Americans, all the while highlighting the pressure - nay the crushing responsibility - of quotidian life’s demands.
In the drum-beat we hear the spinners spinning, we see the grilles grilling, we hear the WIC cards scanning, we hear the babies screaming. Where, here, to trace the arc of progress of American Black culture? To the vanguard, the very front of the automobile, that symbol of American ingenuity, pride and achievement under whose bumper our bold protagonist makes his final statement.
Boom... Boom... Boom... As the curtain falls on this proud moment in which a man is wrestled to the ground by nefarious players and - undaunted - reaches for his gun. Yes! In triumph the never-ending music fills our hearts with a sense of the beyond, the infinite; that which is attainable only through persistence, dedication, intelligence, and achievement. Well done.
Segregation ear public schools were the finest the world ever seen. Everything changed with bussing. Standards dropped.
Damn, Skippy. That’s some fine writing!