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"when I was a child, my father told me that folks knew that things wouldn't change so we encoded the manual for liberation in our music of the 60s & 70s. My recent weeks have been filled with Marvin and and Stevie and Tina and Wilson and Aretha and The Staple Singers and Nina

"I've put this music in high rotation to remind myself that this isn't new, we already have some of the answers, and that the arc is long

"if you listen closely, they were showing the way not just for us folk but for everybody. I think that's why blues, jazz, soul, funk, hip hop, and disco have always been both universally accessible, often opposed, the the target for co-option.

"Even the music about love - especially the music about love - is about revolution."

-- kenyatta cheese (kenyatta), 2020-06-07