Cristina Garcia on "Dreaming in Cuban"

Time - Pink Floyd

I thought this would be a perfect “transition piece” for Monday. Plus, Pink Floyd just plain rocks and it’s a fantastic song. I’m such a fool for passing the chance to have seen them live.

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in that relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Recalling Civil Rights, Democrats Seek Black Votes

SELMA, Ala., March 3 — Representative John Lewis, whose political career grew out of the civil rights movement, had longed for the day he could vote for someone that he believed could become the nation’s first black president. So when Senator Barack Obama entered the race, he was on the cusp of declaring his support...Until Bill Clinton called.

pink floyd the wall 1982 - we dont need no education

David’s choice here of “The Wall” to accompany the Ken Kesey reading was just top choice. The song works so well, “All in all you’re just another brick in the wall” but the video (actually the scene from the movie) is just too perfect. It’s fantastic how the young boy hallucinates all the faceless children being shipped off to the “combine”.
Btw, the poem in the middle of the song is an excerpt from a song off the album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

Jim Crow: Native American Style

This is just bizarre. I don’t even know how to comment on this. Despite the grotesque and heinous abuses suffered by African Americans, most people, would say the Indians (Native Americans) got the worst treatment of all. What does it say when Native Americans want to expel freedmen (former slaves of the tribes and mixed blood mestizos) from their tribal nations?

"It's oppressed people that's oppressing people," said Verdie Triplett, 53, an outspoken freedman of the Choctaw tribe, which, like the Cherokee, once owned black slaves."

John Edwards Second Life Campaign HQ Vandalized

According to a post on presidential candidate John Edwards’ official blog, the Democrat’s Second Life campaign headquarters was trashed, apparently by Republican gamers:

Arthur Schlesinger, historian, dies at 89

One of America's cannonical historians and among the most famous of his time, died last night of a heart attack. The New York Times has a very nice front page story here. The piece in the LA Times is also very good.

“Problems will always torment us,” he wrote, “because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.”