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A special Rock'nRide@5 in honor of Martin Luther King, the spirit, and heart of his life's work and legacy, through the lens of what we are working through now, BrotherBrown-style. I plan to rock hard & let Supper Sounds handle the soothing - not a chill Rock'nRide@5.
playlist:
playlist:
Tribute to Martin Luther King (feat. Muddy Waters) [Live] Otis Spann
Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine
Wake Up Rage Against the Machine
Killing In the Name Rage Against the Machine
Freedom Rage Against the Machine
This Land Gary Clark Jr.
Love, Reign O'er Me The Who
Know Your Rights The Clash
Love Boat Captain 2003.07.08 - New York, New York (NYC) [Live] Pearl Jam
No More DEEP: Vote (Live) Pearl Jam
I Am A Patriot 2003.04.05 - San Antonio, Texas (Live) Pearl Jam
Rockin' In the Free World. 2003.05.03 - State College, Pennsylvania (Live) Pearl Jam
Rock'nRide@5 mp3:
then 6-8 est...
Supper Sounds continues to hold space for MLK care of Downtown Brother Brown. I welcome your feedback and thoughts here as blog comments, via email (DowntownBrotherBrown@gmail.com), or text (828-649-7633). Like last year I'll spin a vinyl of the original address from the march on Washington, August 28, 1963. I will also mix in some tunes, again that embody the spirit, vibe, and heart of MLK's life's work and legacy, through the lens of what we are working through now, BrotherBrown-style.
Supper Sounds menu of songs(PLAYLIST) and supper:
A1. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - MLK I HAVE A DREAM
- omelettes and home fries
Power To the People Curtis Mayfield
A2. A. Phillip Randolph - MLK I HAVE A DREAM
- Sausage, peppers and onions, Jasmine brown rice and mashed potatoes with salad
A3. Dr. Benjamin E Mays - MLK I HAVE A DREAM
The Peacemakers: XI. He Had A Dream: Elegy For Martin Luther King Karl Jenkins, London Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Nigel Hitchcock & Laurence Cottle
Power To the People Durand Jones & The Indications
Strength Courage & Wisdom India.Arie
Supper Sounds mp3:
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Marvin Gaye
Glory (From the Motion Picture "Selma") Common & John Legend
Alabama John Coltrane
We Shall Overcome Mahalia Jackson
Everything Is Everything Lauryn Hill
Move On Up (Single Edit) Curtis Mayfield
O-O-H Child Nina Simone
Supper Time Carmen McRae
Supper Sounds mp3:
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of whithering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the colored America is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
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One hundred years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored American is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our Nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given its colored people a bad check, a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.
We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.
Now it the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now it the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God’s children.
I would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of it’s colored citizens. This sweltering summer of the colored people’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the colored Americans needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the colored citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the colored person’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for white only.”
We cannot be satisfied as long as a colored person in Mississippi cannot vote and a colored person in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you, my friends, we have the difficulties of today and tomorrow.
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father’s died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and every mountainside.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
"meet physical force with soul force" - MLK
"love, brotherhood, and true peace..." - John Lewis
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4 young girls killed: September 15, 1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
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since it was mentioned in the speech and apropos for the current headlines...
Fourteenth Amendment
(Constitution of the United States)
Fourteenth Amendment
(Constitution of the United States)
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Who We Are: Deeply informed by Vietnam Veterans Against the War before us, we are part of a legacy of service members organizing against the wars that we served in.
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Zuma Benefit!
Grey Eagle 1/31
Zuma Benefit!
Grey Eagle 1/31
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In hopes of adding some levity to the show, let me know, what you have up-on your supper plates! We had a lot of fun with this last week!
folks supper plates:
folks supper plates:
- omelettes and home fries
- Sausage, peppers and onions, Jasmine brown rice and mashed potatoes with salad
- Barry's Irish tea w/ milk & honey
- again, boxed mac & cheese
- omlettes (4 all day ;) & toast
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On this day...
Birthdays:
1902 Benny Waters, American jazz saxophonist & clarinetist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1998)
1910 Django Reinhardt, Belgium born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer considered the most significant European Jazz musician, born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium
1928 Elayne Jones, American classical, timpanist and civil rights activist, born in Harlem, New York City (d. 2022) [1]
1948 Anita Pointer, American pop and R&B singer (The Pointer Sisters - "He's So Shy"; "I'm So Excited"), born in Oakland, California (d. 2022)
History:
971 War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops forcing the Southern Han state to submit to the Song Dynasty. First regular war elephant corps in the Chinese army. That was the last time elephants were used in Chinese warfare.
1957 - Toy company Wham‑O produces first Frisbees
1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War - January 23, 1973 — A ceasefire agreement was signed on this day, bringing to an end the vicious and bitter Vietnam War, with President Richard Nixon claiming "peace with honor". It was agreed that the ceasefire would take effect from midnight on January 27.ost the lives,
45,933 US soldiers - according to the US Defence Department,
Over 1.3 million Vietnamese troops
and more than 2 million civilians
Vietnam War 20 years 1955-1975
50 - 85 million dead in WWII - (six years - 1939-45)
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Tune in next week!
for the long awaited..
Episode 8 of Tea w/ Brother Brown!
a continuance of the wART Caboose DJ series...
(sadly sans The Caboose)
with DJ Wanders from the Wednesday Wake up!
you don't wanna miss these two banter back and forth,
it sure to be entertaining! ! !
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As always the goal is to move you, groove you, & soothe you - with Supper Sounds and Downtown Brother Brown love.
Your listenership is an honor and I greatly appreciate you.
big Honk'n Hugs!
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