“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies having to be sold so desperately. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
it is of course very simple: there were campus protests under biden because people hoped they had a receptive audience in power and there are none now because they know they don’t; now, thing is, the first part turned out to be incorrect
This was so pointed and clear that mainstream media decided to not engage much further with Coates. It’s important to also note who is allowed to become the critic and who isn’t. Carlson’s critique upholds American myths and power and can also be dismissed as right wing fodder. Coates’ critique doesn’t and cannot.
We are at the point in this country where police openly grab people off the streets - while they are speaking to the press or protesting - and it’s not registering as even a blip of the growing crisis of speech repression in this country. No national resistance, just permission.
Odd, the comedians who love elaborate conspiracy theories don’t have anything to say about the president pressuring a huge company to follow his orders or else he won’t approve their upcoming business merger
Let me go get my tinfoil hat
Very sorry to hear about the passing of our old label boss and collaborator, Quincy Jones. We were on his label Qwest for many years, he did a great remix of Blue Monday in 1988. We send all our condolences and thoughts to his family, he was a true legend!