Bad news for gayers over in the US. Again.
Nina Simone says it best:
Just try to do your very best
Stand up be counted with all the rest
For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Picket lines
School boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
All I want is equality
for my sister my brother my people and me
Yes you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
I don't trust you any more
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
"Go slow!"
But that's just the trouble
"do it slow"
Desegregation
"do it slow"
Mass participation
"do it slow"
Reunification
"do it slow"
Do things gradually
"do it slow"
But bring more tragedy
"do it slow"
Why don't you see it
Why don't you feel it
I don't know
I don't know
You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Everybody knows about Alabama
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Mississippi is the first American state to pass specifically anti-gay laws in recent memory.
between mississippi & north carolina, it's staring to feel like secession time again.
ReplyDeleteRevenge for the "ban" of the Confederate flag, no doubt. Jx
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