Latest Breaking News On - Morris levy - Page 30 : comparemela.com
Overcoming barriers to opportunity
arkansasonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arkansasonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Brooks: How racist is America?
July 23, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
One question lingers amid all the debates about critical race theory: How racist is this land?
Anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear knows about the oppression of the Native Americans, about slavery and Jim Crow. But does that mean that America is even now a white supremacist nation, that whiteness is a cancer that leads to oppression for other groups? Or is racism mostly a part of America’s past, something we’ve largely overcome?
There are many ways to answer these questions. The most important is by having honest conversations with the people directly affected. But another is by asking: How high are the barriers to opportunity for different groups? Do different groups have a fair shot at the American dream? This approach isn’t perfect, but at least it points us to empirical data rather than just theory and supposition.
Just how racist is this land? - StarTribune com
startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photo by Central Press/Getty Images
Case in point. Come Together by the Beatles which is actually taken from Chuck Berry s You Can t Catch Me
Here Berry performs the song after an intro by Alan Freed in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock . Berry sings about his brand new airmobile which is so fast that you can t catch him. Berry goes on to tell the story of driving on the New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours, rolling slowly cause of drizlin showers
He goes on to sing a line very familiar to Beatles fans Here come a flat-top which is very similar to the Here come old flat top opening of Come Together
I like the seaside Eels Greg Williams Sheesh, Ed, why are you smiling? You re being sued for ripping of the work of other artists. Arguably one of the most maudlin songs in pop music history, Barry Manilow s I Write the Songs, has consistently ranked high on critics Top 10 Songs That Make Us Cringe lists. With its melodramatic vocals, orchestrated arrangement, and pretentious lyrics about conspiring with The Muse to make the whole world sing, it s hard not to agree. Ironically enough, it wasn t Manilow who wrote I Write the Songs. The credit for that goes to Bruce Johnston, a longtime member of the Beach Boys. In what turned out to be a win-win situation, Manilow got a No. 1 hit that would sell three million copies. Johnston, meanwhile, earned a 1976 Song of the Year Grammy, as well as a steady stream of songwriting royalties
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.