"Legendary opera singer Jessye Norman elegantly explains why "The Star Spangled Banner" is an un-singable song and that our national anthem should be "#AmericaTheBeautiful"
"I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all."
FACT: John Henry Newton the author of "Amazing Grace" was a slave trader who had a religious conversion and spent the rest of his life fighting racial slavery.
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"In 1921, Virginia Republicans purged Black voters from their ranks. Virginia Republicans weren’t alone. Republicans across the South were doing the same thing, in a failed bid to make themselves more acceptable to white voters."
This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most shameful political events in #Virginia history, one that has repercussions to this day."
While attempting to lobby for censor, attempting to crush CRT de-NEGRO-fy.American history: He says he's the one being censured. Why? Was it because he didn't let a panel know he was going to show a propaganda video to parents at a school board?
As George Orwell said in a critique of Hitler: “He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock".
"Whaaaaa!I The Blacks aren't letting me be a dictator! What's wrong with them? Whaaaaaa! So, what if I tried to steal the election from them, sniff? Whaaaa! So, I wrongfully purged 200K voters in Atlanta -- many of them black! Whaaaa!I! I'm the victim."
Someone once told me that Charlie Pride (country singer, baseball ⚾️ player) was the first African American country singer to ever perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
That's not true: #DeFordBailey was likely the first.
"Personally, I have no desire for white association except where I am sought and the pleasure is mutual. That feeling grows out of my own self-respect. I see no glory to myself in the contact unless there is something more than the accident of race."
Thanks a million for your kind letter. I am always proud to have a word of praise from you because your friendship means a great deal to me. It means so much to me because I have never known you to make an insincere move, neither for personal gain, nor for malice