A Sense of Doubt blog post #2162 - Haunted Jukebox and MLK Day - Musical Monday - one song for 2101.18
"Haunted Jukebox"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Etienne_(band)
Ghosts of an ancient song
Seem to hide in many places
Bringing back so many faces
And I know that it's been too long
But the spirits in the air
It's like the tunes are everywhere I wanna go
I can't escape, I'm sure you know
They leave me haunted
I was just 15 in November '82
When I would meet you after school
And there was bonfires on Halloween
Frosty little windows
All the songs we used to listen to each time
Hands in gloves and yours in mine
Going round and round my mind
They leave me haunted
One night in Allentown
When you called me on the phone
And told me you were coming over
Fine 45s you found
Now every time I hear them
Knowing you're not near and won't be soon
It goes much further in our tune
When every record in the room
They leave me haunted
Haunted, haunted, haunted
She said, "Sometimes it makes me wanna die"
Sometimes it makes me scream and shout
And when the record's over
Just tell me what it's all about
Sometimes it makes me wanna die
Sometimes it makes me scream and shout
And when the record's over
Just tell me what it's all about
Haunted, haunted, haunted
Haunted, haunted, haunted
Haunted, haunted, haunted
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Peter Stewart Wiggs / Bob Stanley / Deborah Anne Acheson Wykes / Sarah Jane Cracknell
Haunted Jukebox lyrics © Wardlaw Banks Limited, Warner/chappell Music Ltd, Kobalt Music Services Ltd Kms
"Haunted Jukebox"
Saint Etienne - Topic
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Haunted Jukebox · Saint Etienne
Words And Music by Saint Etienne
℗ Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Released on: 2012-05-18
Producer: Nick Coler
Mixing Engineer: Nick Coler
Composer: Pete Wiggs
Composer: Sarah Cracknell
Composer: Bob Stanley
Composer: Debsey Wykes
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It's that time of year when Republicans insult our intelligence and Dr. Martin Luther King's memory with nonsensical statements about the civil rights leader. Let them tell it, Dr. King was a supply-side loving, promoter of color-blind “unity," hardly revolutionary at all. Conservatives selectively quote Dr. King as if he wrote greeting card messages or the lyrics to Bobby McFerrin's “Don't Worry Be Happy."
South Carolina Republican House Rep. Nancy Mace got a head start on the annual hypocrisy when she invoked Dr. King as part of her BS rationale for not voting to impeach Donald Trump.
Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "The time is always right to do what is right." And if we're serious about healing the divisions in this country, Republicans and Democrats need to acknowledge this is not the first day of violence we've seen.
This is what happens when a white woman buys a MLK Quote of the Day calendar. The Capitol hasn't been attacked since 1814, but Mace compared some stupid kid burning a CVS to Trump's attempted insurrection. That's just pathetic. She's awarded no points and may God have mercy on her soul.
Mace takes King grossly out of context. He said, “The time is always right to do right" during an address to Oberlin College in 1965 when he denounced a conservative approach to the race problem in America.
Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem. That is a myth, and it is a myth because time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. And I'm absolutely convinced that the people of ill will in our nation — the extreme rightists, the forces committed to negative ends — have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.
It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic works and violent actions of the bad people who bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama, or shoot down a civil rights worker in Selma, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."
Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals. Without this hard work, time becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always right to do right.
Dr. King would have opposed setting burning buildings or destroying private property, but he wouldn't have accepted Republicans using the violence as an excuse to delay or avoid change. He cautioned in the same speech against “sleeping during a revolution."
Mace represents a conservative district in a conservative state that fought against integration and racial justice with everything it had. Blood was spilled in pursuit of equality. Mace and “respectable" conservatives like her play the same game as their 1960s antecedents. They sympathized in theory with Dr. King's cause but questioned his tactics. He was considered “divisive" at the time, because he demanded nothing less than a complete overhaul of the existing racial hierarchy. Black Lives Matter just wants cops to stop killing us, and even that's apparently too much during these more “enlightened" times.
Republicans, including Mace, have argued that it'll only divide Americans more if we impeach Trump or otherwise personally inconvenience him. After the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four Black girls, Governor George Wallace believed some “first class funerals" could settle things down and also preserve the racist status quo. Dr. King eulogized the four children movingly but he didn't hold back in his condemnation of the racism that took their lives. Damn right, he politicized their deaths. He could do nothing less, because he wasn't about to let them die for nothing.
These children — unoffending, innocent, and beautiful —were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity. And yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. And so this afternoon in a real sense they have something to say to each of us in their death.
They have something to say to every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass windows. They have something to say to every politician who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. They have something to say to a federal government that has compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats and the blatant hypocrisy of right-wing northern Republicans.
They have something to say to every Negro who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice. They say to each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution.
They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American dream.
Republicans want us to believe that Dr. King was a harmless Uncle Remus who hosted a children's show where he encouraged black and white kids to share, separately, from their less than equal neighborhoods. Dr. King didn't change the world by making white people comfortable. No one ever has.
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