systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us of course its worst effects are for its victims but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates pete buttigieg
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why are your eyes against me sir? optimized for night vision
I'm not afraid of your suffering I'm not afraid of your joy I'm not afraid of your hunger, your desire I'm not afraid of your rage I'm not afraid of your love I'm not afraid of your lies ... or your truths or of the prisons you choose to live inside I see you I feel you I need you I love you
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH the story behind entangled OM temple redux is 25 years in the making
in 1995/96, I received a Toronto Arts Council grant then a FACTOR loan to do a new world music album I called it temple having to rush it’s completion (because FACTOR gave me a deadline to deliver CDs) it fell short, even having taken 2 years seeds were however planted I've since dissected & remixed it (3rd time) now here in 2020 finished my first inspiration came from having watched a scorsese film years earlier called 'last temptation of christ' and the soundtrack blew me away I bought my first CD player that summer (1988) and listened to peter gabriel's 'passion' endless times, fascinated several years, then even decades later and finally temple redux
carry the battle to them don't let them bring it to you put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize
for anything Harry S Truman
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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH the story behind dead ahead it's a POV thing corn fields? right long story no time alpha bravo charlie whisky delta tango we are ready to fight for our right to believe in our country ... and there's nothing in this manual that says I have to like you you look different so, na ... so you? gotta go battle lines drawn - shadowy shapes shifting enemy in my sights ... dead ahead a blast from the past - then the future collateral damage imminent how does it feel to be a casualty nope, that doesn't belong to you it belongs to us putting these sounds together something different finding this game stuff playing with it with the music rearranging kinda works - fun to watch layering in more synths and voices on the final pass before merging the final audio mix from logic to the fine cut/picture edit in final cut
I don't get war, never did for some (many), it's just what is never questioning why we humans hate each other so much we just do
