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19 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
The thing about #StevieWonder, who is trending only because he is THE musical genius certainly of my lifetime, is that once you get past his monster hits, his “C” list is still amazing. I never get tired of listening to Stevie. For artistic genius, for raw emotion & authenticity.
Just #Stevie’s straight up top-shelf love ballads:
Ribbon in The Sky
As
You and I
All in Love is Fair
Lately
Knocks Me Off My Feet
For Once in My Life
My Cherie Amour

would be enough to put him in the greatness pantheon. But these are just the tip of the iceberg. Unreal.
Like some of my favorite #StevieWonder songs are the genius gems that just floor you musically and lyrically. I count among these:

Jesus Children of America
He’s Mistra Know It All
Golden Lady
Cash in Your Face
Joy Inside My Tears
Have a Talk With God
Isn’t She Lovely
Livin’ Just Enough For the City

are in a category all their own. These are his “epic” songs.
Imma stop cause I just remembered

Don’t You Worry Bout A Thing

It’s too much. The output of excellence from #StevieWonder is too much to catalog here. And so many of these songs have special significance for powerful moments in my own life. Whew!
That Girl
Sir Duke

When I start getting into Stevie’s music I can’t get out!
When you recreate the “Happy Birthday” song to galvanize support for the #MLK holiday and thereafter it becomes THE birthday song for every birthday celebration in Black America? Only #StevieWonder. Only Stevie.

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This is transparent & shameful. We are on the brink as a democracy in part because publications like the WSJ & the mainstream conservatives who read it, failed to firmly call out the authoritarian and racist excesses of the former president when it might have made a difference.
And for Noonan, who devotedly kept the Reagan myth alive even when many journalists and even his circle in the WH suspected that President Reagan was mentally diminished in his second term, is rich.
The Vice President is an attorney who was the Attorney General of one of the most populous states in our country. She served as a U.S. Senator, where served in both the Judiciary Committee and the Intelligence Committee.
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7 Dec
I want to talk abt one aspect of the brilliant @bartongellman piece on the threat of a Trump coup.The ongoing resistance to facing the centrality of racism & white supremacy to the unraveling of our democracy cost us valuable time. The “economic anxiety” crowd searching diners /
…in an effort to solve the mystery of why so many were willing to back the agenda of someone as patently unqualified as Trump, is a reflection of the still strong failure of media, elected leaders, and mainstream influencers to acknowledge this truth.
I get it. If racism and white supremacy is centered a core problem of American democratic decline, addressing it will require an analysis and expertise that few of our existing elite experts and top political reporters are equipped to provide. But we are losing valuable time.
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5 Dec
Sometimes I think about how much damage Facebook has done to democracies and how it was supposed to be this fun thing to “connect us” with another. Then I think about how an unregulated Facebook just introduced this fun new thing called “metaverse.” We laughed derisively.
Why do we laugh? Do we really know what it is? What effects it might have on perceptions of reality? On young people? We’re just watching in real time, knowing what we know about the effects of Facebook’s products on our democracy. Where is the regulatory framework?
Every day new info is revealed about how Facebook is being used and has been used to undercut democracy and it’s potential harms to young people. But the company just rolls out new “virtual reality” products w/the same forced innocence we’ve seen in the past.
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3 Nov
It’s clear that there is not yet a willingness to confront the landscape of American politics. The Va race was not abt “education” or “enthusiasm” or “change.” There’s no ability to engage w/the grim reality of an electorate of white voters primed to embrace racial threats.
And the embrace of viral fantasies by a huge swathe of the electorate is a real and difficult challenge - not just to one party - but to the soundness of American democracy.
“What can the Democrats learn?” is not really the question. How does a democracy address the systematic use of manufactured racial threat as a strategy for political control? Perhaps engaging that question seriously when Bush I disgracefully used Willie Horton would have helped.
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27 Oct
There is no consistent or logical argument that engages CRT or anything approaching educational integrity. Just a compendium of the standard inchoate tropes.
-Talking about race creates racism. -Black boys need to pull up their pants.
-Genocide happened but let’s move past it.
-I don’t see race.
-At some pt we need to stop feeling sorry for Black people.
-Talking abt racism threatens standards of merit.
-Brutal encounters w/police occur b/c of disrespect towards police officers
-Parents should reach about racism not teachers
-I’m a parent not a teacher
None of this about CRT or the curriculum she claims she’s seen. We have an education system precisely b/c in a democracy a sound education that prepares our children for citizenship & success requires more than most parents are equipped or shld be required to provide.
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Yes, I am horrified by this story. I want to lift up the attorneys who represented these children & families and received for them some monetary damages. But these actors are still in place along w/the system they created. So here are a few urgent actions: propublica.org/article/black-…
First DOJ @CivilRights must open a pattern & practice investigation & if warranted prosecution of the Murfreesboro PD & Rutherford County Juvenile system. The Law Enforcement Misconduct statute authorizes DOJ action may be taken against police ofcrs, but also judges & jailers.
Second @CivilRights should investigate whether to bring individual criminal civil rights prosecutions against Judge Donna Davenport (dating back to her time as a juvenile referee), Ofcr Chrystal Templeton and Lynn Duke. “Willfulness” appears to be their brand.
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