#Ferguson people! What has happened is NOT okay... tho violence is NOT the way. Take a leaf from Nina Simone... She wrote this song in response to the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi on June 12, 1963, and also to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 4 black girls on September 15, 1963. When I heard about the bombing of the church in which the four little black girls were killed in Alabama, I shut myself up in a room and that song happened. Medgar Evers had been recently slain in Mississippi. At first I tried to make myself a gun. I gathered some materials. I was going to take one of them out, and I didnt care who it was. Then Andy, my husband at the time, said to me, Nina, you cant kill anyone. You are a musician. Do what you do. When I sat down the whole song happened. I never stopped writing until the thing was finished. https://youtube/watch?v=fVQjGGJVSXc
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:29:13 +0000
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