There have been some difficult days of late. Things continue to look like they will get more difficult before they get easier.
I keep hearing, and seeing, people make stupid, pointless, mind-numbingly inane statments like, "This isn't change you can believe in..." as if any change comes this fast (it did after all take Dubya eight years to screw things up this badly!).
The forces of darkness - whether they come from a gun fired at a man standing in a church doorway, angry hypocritical attacks made by ugly political hacks , or the blathering mediocrity of the nation's most inane broadcast personality - are arrayed against the President, a progressive political direction, and basic human openess and decency. As a remedy for the depressed reaction that tries to raise it's ugly head as a response to that, I've taken to listening to this song more and more (and viewing the video in my head even when I'm not watching it on a screen).
It helps to, as the song says, remember, the place we've come from and the people we've come with.
And I've really only got two things to say about that:
1) Nobody said this was gonna be easy.
2) Like the sign on a deli wall in post-Katrina New Orleans proclaims...
