Just in Time for President's Day!!
Oh the irony and just in time for President's Day!! You have "Blacks for Trump" supporters raving for the President at his rallies. Then you have hundreds of thousands in the streets, many of them white, protesting that President Trump is not their President. This confirms my prognostication that President Trump will indeed bring the country together...one way or another.
As fate would have it, today would be the day that I would restart my blog. It did make me chuckle when I read my previous blog and remembered why starting this was so very important to me in the first place. I believe this new frontier called social media could be a resourceful tool in helping us build a consensus and create opportunities for redress. I'm often reminded of our commitment as artists to be a reflection of the world we and others live in. Today brings to mind the searing lyrics from a composition by the great Stevie Wonder.
"We would not care to wake up to the nightmare that is becoming real life,
But when misled who knows a person's mind can turn cold as ice."
"It's not to cool to be ridiculed but you brought this upon yourself,
the world is tired of pacifiers we want the truth and nothing else."
These nearly prophetic lyrics illustrate how very necessary it is for artists to stand up, push back and reach out. Today's political environment is wrought with adversity. We are faced with the dilemma of defining who we are and what it means to be an American. We must be loyal actors in emphasizing those issues that impact us as a people. It's not about labels. It's not about partisan politics. It's about learning and growing and sharing those things that display our humanity in a world where humanity seems to be lacking.
As fate would have it, today would be the day that I would restart my blog. It did make me chuckle when I read my previous blog and remembered why starting this was so very important to me in the first place. I believe this new frontier called social media could be a resourceful tool in helping us build a consensus and create opportunities for redress. I'm often reminded of our commitment as artists to be a reflection of the world we and others live in. Today brings to mind the searing lyrics from a composition by the great Stevie Wonder.
"We would not care to wake up to the nightmare that is becoming real life,
But when misled who knows a person's mind can turn cold as ice."
"It's not to cool to be ridiculed but you brought this upon yourself,
the world is tired of pacifiers we want the truth and nothing else."
These nearly prophetic lyrics illustrate how very necessary it is for artists to stand up, push back and reach out. Today's political environment is wrought with adversity. We are faced with the dilemma of defining who we are and what it means to be an American. We must be loyal actors in emphasizing those issues that impact us as a people. It's not about labels. It's not about partisan politics. It's about learning and growing and sharing those things that display our humanity in a world where humanity seems to be lacking.
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