By John Dorsey Due, Jr. November 18, 2008 The nation will pause and reflect on the massive “Revolutionary Kool Aid Suicide” of almost a 1000 Americans in their Jonestown refuge in Guyana and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, thirty years ago, on November 18, 1978. This could be my final ten year acknowledgment of [...]
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by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 07. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, class and poverty, election, friends, hungry blues, john due, labor movement, politics, race and racism, southwest ms, women and feminism
Our election of Barack Obama to be President of the United States of America has been filling me with overwhelming emotions. As it has been doing for so many people. It has been hard to put any of this into words. For me it begins with my being a child of the Civil Rights Movement. [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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