Mississipi GoddamA shocking poll that was just released, indicates that an overwhelming number of white Mississippians are loathe to vote for a black candidate. Unlike some other states, white males there are unambivalently intent upon pulling their levers for Monster. While this stark reality contradicts the “unlevel playing field” Monster bemoans at every opportunity; it certainly indicates that there is one. It just doesn’t have anything to do with her vagina. Her race, strangely enough, will garner her a very significant portion of the Mississippi vote.
In honor of the poll, my girl Names4Things pulled out a bunch of statistics and Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam...but I found a more audible version...
AND the lyrics...
Lyrics to Mississippi Goddam!
Nina Simone, 1963Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone)
The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of itAlabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamAlabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamCan't you see it
Can't you feel it
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayerAlabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamThis is a show tune
But the show hasn't been written for it, yetHound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day's gonna be my lastLord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don't belong here
I don't belong there
I've even stopped believing in prayerDon't tell me
I tell you
Me and my people just about due
I've been there so I know
They keep on saying "Go slow!"But that's just the trouble
"do it slow"
Washing the windows
"do it slow"
Picking the cotton
"do it slow"
You're just plain rotten
"do it slow"
You're too damn lazy
"do it slow"
The thinking's crazy
"do it slow"
Where am I going
What am I doing
I don't know
I don't knowJust try to do your very best
Stand up be counted with all the rest
For everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamI made you thought I was kiddin'
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 meYes 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 SadieOh 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 knowYou 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 GoddamThat's it!
...because, written a year befor the 1964 Civil Rights act, the last stanza is the perfect follow up to ptcruiser's response
Freedom of Association
On March 6th, 2008 ptcruiser says:Goldwater feared the 1964 Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector...
There was absolutely nothing expressed or implied in the 1964 Civil Rights Bill that required any person to associate with Negroes if that person chose not to do so. This is a recapitulation of an old canard that conservatives have recycled again and again. It is part of the mindset that opposed fair housing laws on the absurd basis that the government was trying to tell you who you could sell your house to. The reality is that such laws were making it clear that blacks and other minorities had the same right to purchase or rent a home as anyone else in this country.
to Michael Zak
I, not Deroy Murdock, wrote the Republican factoids he listed in his National Review article. They were copied from the 2005 Republican Freedon Calendar, which I wrote for the House Policy Committee. See http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com and http://www.republicanbasics.com for more information.
Michael Zak
...who obviously wasn't there and so is making shit up.
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Missippi Goddam
Damn! You got me again! Yours really is a better version. But I still like my b/w too.
Further, I got an exclusive interview with Monster's vagina , and so I thinkI got a 'get' before you. And it ain't even nasty. HmHmHm.
The Black Electorate
One of the political questions that the black electorate should begin pondering is why it remains loyal to a political party in which white working class (aka Reagan Democrats) and Hispanic voters (over the age of 30) will not vote for a black candidate. The fact that the Republicans are not a viable alternative is not sufficient reason for the current relationship with the Democratic Party to continue. If Hillary Clinton is the nominee, we might want to consider what our support actually means because she has no chance of winning the electiion without overwhelming support from the black electorate. Maybe she can persuade more Reagan Democrats and Latino voters over the age of 30 to come to her aid because we should not.
"We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interests."
We need to look closely at our own interests not the Hillary Clinton's or the Democratic Party's.