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Monday, August 5, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3457 - WORK THAT - Time for Change - Sense of Doubt Reprint - Music Monday 2408.05


 A Sense of Doubt blog post #3457 - WORK THAT - Time for Change - Sense of Doubt Reprint - Music Monday 2408.05

This is a reprint of a former mix with a little added content.

Kamala Harris was my pick for the democratic candidate in 2020 before Joe Biden won the nomination. 

I was then thrilled when he selected her to be his running mate, and they won the election:


Saturday, November 7, 2020


I was not over-joyed to see Biden choose to run for a second term, but with the alternatives being Donald Trump, a wanna-be dictator, and RFK, Jr. An anti-vax lunatic, the choice was clear. I felt I had to back Biden to save our democracy. However, after the disastrous Presidential debate, it became clear that Biden did not have the wherewithal to beat Trump.

But then we waited days and weeks for him to make the decision (be convinced?) to step down. There's no doubt that he believes that he can do the job, and he is qualified. But would he beat Trump head-to-head? It was not looking like he could do that.

Given that Kamala Harris is the Vice President, she was the natural choice to step in as the "presumptive" nominee. Though not voted in by the American people via the primary system, and though not given the nomination by the Democratic National Committee at the convention (to start August 19th), it is 100% certain that she will be the Democratic candidate for president against Donald Trump.

Since she announced her candidacy, endorsed first by President Biden, and swiftly by many others, including former President Obama, a firestorm of excitement has boosted the chances of the democrats in this election year to not only win the presidency but possibly the majority in the House and keep the majority in the Senate.

But it's still a rough road ahead. The Republicans do not play fair and engage in false information of all kinds. The Republican candidate himself cannot help himself from race baiting with dog whistles to his racist base.

As I asserted in 2020: NOT all Trump supporters are racist but ALL THE RACISTS are Trump supporters.

Trump surely understand bi-racial people and yet he tried to argue that Harris chose to align herself with African-Americans after first aligning herself with South Asians.

It's rather simple:


Trump didn't have a problem with her in 2011, when he donated to her election campaign for Attorney General in California:


Now he wants to claim that she's "not black" and that she "falsely turned black."



There was one scheduled to be held on ABC, but Trump prefers to have it on FOX NEWS on Sept. 4th.

Harris has declined the Fox News invite (so far) and wants to proceed with the original agreement for the ABC News debate on Sept. 10th  set when Biden was the nominee that Trump backed out of when Harris took over for Biden.

Harris has issues with Trump's rhetoric: SAY IT TO MY FACE.

Trump doesn't have this kind of energy as seen in the video above.

That was from Harris' recent Georgia rally where people were dancing, clapping, and having a great old time even when Megan Thee Stallion was not performing.

Trump can't get stars like that at his rallies. In fact, he has lots of people, including defunct bands like the Village People, denying him the rights to use their music.

Trump spent most of his Georgia rally that followed Harris a few days later attacking the governor of the state and the state itself for not letting all the people into the rally that wanted to be there, suggesting that the empty seats were due to denial of access not lack of attendees.

And so, a repeat from the reprinted blog entry from 2022, shared below...



BE THE CHANGE.





I am proud of this mix. It's a good collection. And the photo gallery tells a story of strong, resilient, out-spoken not silent women in our culture.

Work that...


BTW, I got the idea for this mix when Vice President Kamala Harris walked out for her victory speech to Mary J. Blige's "Work That."



I think this one of my best mixes.







https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/deepfakes-elon-musk-donald-trump-kamala-harris-x/


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-harris-trump-cbs-news/


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/harris-campaign-republicans-trump-voters/





Monday, October 17, 2022



Toni Morrison with tie


A Sense of Doubt blog post #2799 - WORK THAT - Time For a Change - a music mix - MUSICAL MONDAY 2210.17

I have been working on this mix for some time and finished it this summer, a few months ago, but had not yet posted a blog about it. Also, I published this one on the date shown, and yet I needed more than a full week to finish with all the photos of these amazing women, African-American women.

In fact, so amazing are these women, I cannot choose one for the image up top, so instead I am using a picture of Toni Morrison, partly the inspiration for this post. I am teaching her book Sula this quarter in English 101.

I am also trying to get my students to understand the great feminist adage: "THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL."

I am trying to get students to see the relevance to their lives of all the things that take place in the political arena.

Did the majority of Americans, especially young Americans, realize the extent to which the world and the United States in particular relied on the "bread basket" of Ukraine.

We do this assignment in which a student picks an endangered right (most of them are endangered) that is considered a human right or is a right protected by the US Constitution, or they select a right that should be protected by the Constitution or should be recognized as a human right and isn't.

I often experience push back from students who "don't like to write about politics."

I tell them that the "PERSONAL IS POLITICAL," that those things in their personal life that they care about are affected and often can only be changed in the political arena.



The phrase come from a 1969 essay by Carol Hamisch arguing that issues of sex, child care, gender inequalities, marriage rights, and more are not personal and private issues but ones that are political and can be changed in the political arena.


They could sometimes admit that women were oppressed (but only by “the system”) and said that we should have equal pay for equal work, and some other “rights.” But they belittled us no end for trying to bring our so-called “personal problems” into the public arena—especially “all those body issues” like sex, appearance, and abortion. Our demands that men share the housework and childcare were likewise deemed a personal problem between a woman and her individual man. The opposition claimed if women would just “stand up for themselves” and take more responsibility for their own lives, they wouldn’t need to have an independent movement for women’s liberation. What personal initiative wouldn’t solve, they said, “the revolution” would take care of if we would just shut up and do our part. Heaven forbid that we should point out that men benefit from oppressing women.


A lot has been written about it in the years since. Like this:

The personal is political: the journey of a feminist slogan

All successful slogans are subject to misappropriation: it is a sign of their success. The personal is political – but mind the gap.

Rahila Gupta

13 April 2015

 

Outside of feminist politics, the slogan, if not the exact words, has been co-opted by politicians and public figures as a way of simplifying complex political ideas by using the personal as a metaphor. The slogan was not meant to be used in reverse, i.e. trying to understand the political in terms of the personal as that can subvert the original idea. Margaret Thatcher was a great believer in this form of discourse, ventriloquizing the popular voice, as Stuart Hall describes it. Thatcher particularly liked discussing the national budget in personal terms as Margaret Drabble reminds us, “Many economists …warned her you couldn't run the country as you ran a household budget... It didn't square up with monetarism and privatisation and the reckless deregulation of financial services and the Big Bang”. It is the kind of discourse which influences voters to vote Conservative because they understand the national debt in terms of personal debt and believe that it is a sign of prudent management of finances when the Conservatives say that it is their number one priority to reduce borrowing even if it means drastic cuts to spending. Living within your means, the personal motto that might drive a thrifty person, is no way to run a country.

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-origin-story-of-a-slogan-the-personal-is-political

And so, as we work on the RIGHTS essay, I realized the time was NOW to share this MIX and the voices of these beautiful women, these beautiful black women, to "WORK THAT," work for the change.

BE THE CHANGE.

I am proud of this mix. It's a good collection. And the photo gallery tells a story of strong, resilient, out-spoken not silent women in our culture.

Work that...


BTW, I got the idea for this mix when Vice President Kamala Harris walked out for her victory speech to Mary J. Blige's "Work That."



I think this one of my best mixes.

Thanks for tuning in.

Enjoy.




WORK THAT MIX - TIME FOR A CHANGE






TRACK LIST

[1] Mary J. Blige - Work That
[2] Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song
[3] Sade - Soldier of Love - Official - 2010
[4] H.E.R. - Damage (Official Video)
[5] Janelle MonĂ¡e - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video]
[6] Megan Thee Stallion: Anxiety (Live) - SNL
[7] TLC - Kick Your Game live (1996)
[8] Lizzo - Truth Hurts (Official Video)
[9] Ruthie Foster - Phenomenal Woman
[10] Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer: her very best performance!
[11] Lizzo - Humanize
[12] Sade - Cherish the Day (Live 2011)
[13] Bonnie Raitt & Ruthie Foster "Angel From Montgomery"
[14] Janelle MonĂ¡e & Kelly Clarkson - Unbreakable [Official Visualizer]
[15] H.E.R. - I Can't Breathe (Audio)
[16] Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know (Official Video)
[17] Ruthie Foster - Brand New Day (Live at The Paramount)
[18] Pharrell Williams - Entrepreneur (Official Video) ft. JAY-Z
[19] Janelle Monae - Suite II Overture
[20] RuthieFoster - "Heal Yourself" from the film Road To Austin
[21] Mary J. Blige - Everything (Official Music Video)
[22] Janelle MonĂ¡e - Tightrope [feat. Big Boi] (Video)
[23] Erykah Badu - Back In The Day (Puff) live
[24] Sade - Paradise (Live 2011)
[25] En Vogue - Free Your Mind (Official Music Video) [HD]
[26] Tanerélle Stephens - Boys Like You
[27] Curtis Mayfield- Move on Up (Extended Version)
[28] Janelle MonĂ¡e - Electric Lady [Official Video]
[29] H.E.R. - I'm Not OK (Official Video)
[30] Megan Thee Stallion - Ungrateful (feat. Key Glock) [Official Video]
[31] Mary J. Blige - I'm Goin' Down
[32] Erykah Badu - On & On (Remix Edit)
[33] Tanerélle Stephens - Continuum
[34] TLC Live Honolulu Hawaii 8/6/22 - "Creep"
[35] Megan Thee Stallion - Her [Official Video]
[36] Mary J. Blige - Just Fine (Official Music Video)
[37] Janelle MonĂ¡e - PrimeTime ft. Miguel [Official Video]
[38] Arrested Development ‎– People Everyday - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of
[39] Sade - No Ordinary Love - Official - 1992
[40] Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Live at Kennedy Center Honors)


PHOTO GALLERY

Mary J Blige






H.E.R.






https://www.instagram.com/hermusicofficial/?hl=en






ARETHA FRANKLIN






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