Adventures in Emerging Adulthood
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Whoa. Not what I would have guessed (not that I would have guessed the exact opposite. I don’t know).
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POTUS sings Sweet Home Chicago w/B.B. King & Mick Jagger.
You’re welcome.
Everything we hoped and imagined. Thanks orbitalcommand for the tipoff.
This man is the President of the United States of America.
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Some Longreads
Hey y’all.
Feel like I’m writing a letter to friends as opposed to my normal Tumblring duties over at the Cheat Sheet (which I LOVE!). Wanted to point out 2 longer political pieces I finally caught up on at the end of this week on Instapaper. (Is it in poor taste to discuss politics on personal tumblrs, as it is at a family get-together?) I saw them as solid pieces of journalism (says the guy who’s updated a tumblr called Blake Lively Doing Things in the same week).
- Ryan Lizza on The Obama Memos in The New Yorker and
- Robert Kagan on the Myth of American Decline in TNR(from Jan 11th. No Single Page View, so I actually bought the magazine!)
So, you know, if you’re looking for some Obama Hope this weekend.
Our friends at the DNC created this in honor of tonight’s Republican debate, and we couldn’t not share.
Gonna be a fun year.
We’re talking about a democratic awakening. We’re talking about raising political consciousness, so it spills over; all parts of the country so people can begin to see what’s going on through a different set of lens. And then you begin to highlight what the more detailed demands would be, because in the end we’re really talking about what Martin King would call a revolution; a transfer of power from oligarchs to every day people of all colors, and that is a step-by-step process. It’s a democratic process, it’s a non-violent process, but it is a revolution, because these oligarchs have been transferring wealth from poor and working people at a very intense rate in the last 30 years, and getting away with it, and then still smiling in our faces and telling us it’s our fault. That’s a lie, and this beautiful group is a testimony to that being a lie.
When you get the makings of a U.S. autumn responding to the Arab Spring, and is growing and growing—-I hope it spills over to San Francisco and Chicago and Miami and Phoenix, Arizona, with our brown brothers and sisters, hits our poor white brothers and sisters in Appalachia—-so. it begins to coalesce. And I tell you, it is sublime to see all the different colors, all the different genders, all the different sexual orientations and different cultures, all together here in Liberty Plaza; there’s no doubt about it.
”Cornel West, interview. Democracy Now!, 29 September 2011
A good response to people who keep demanding that the OWS protestors draw up some sort of platform of demands. That rarely happens in the early stages of liberation movements. At the moment, it’s about raising the consciousness of everyday Americans who have thus far accepted the notion that the U.S. is a democratic, fair, and equal society. It may be a strange notion to most Americans, but our country is one that—like the countries involved in the Arab Spring—is crying out for a democratic revolution.
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Yup.
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Thank you, Mr. West. Sounds a lot like fostering a protest culture. It’s time to normalize this type of dissent, because it doesn’t just belong to easily mocked stereotypes. It’s for everyone. Think about it.
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It is a beautiful group.
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