Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo
For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo
Oh sha sha we got to live together
I am no better and neither are you
We are the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in
We are the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
"Everyday People." A classic by Sly and the Family Stone.
But I know it from Diana Ross and the Supremes because a friend at work has it as a ringtone.
That is a great song and it's one that still applies today. From WIKIPEDIA:
The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history. Sly and the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same.
Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records, "Everyday People" is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel. Sly, singing the main verses for the song, explains that he is "no better / and neither are you / we are the same / whatever we do."
Sly's sister Rose Stone sings bridging sections that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat, skinny, white, black, or anything else. The bridges of the song contain the line "different strokes for different folks," which became a popular catchphrase in 1969 (and inspired the name of the later television series, Diff'rent Strokes). Rose's singing ends each part of the bridge with the words: "And so on, and so on, and scooby dooby doo".
During the chorus, all of the singing members of the band (Sly, Rosie, Larry Graham, and Sly's brother Freddie Stone) proclaim that "I am everyday people," meaning that each of them (and each listener as well) should consider himself or herself as parts of one whole, not of smaller, specialized factions.
Bassist Larry Graham contends that the track featured the first instance of the "slap bass" technique, which would become a staple of funk and other genres. The technique involves striking a string with the thumb of the right hand (or left hand, for a left-handed player) so that the string collides with the frets, producing a metallic "clunk" at the beginning of the note. Later slap bass songs – for example, Graham's performance on "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)" – expanded on the technique, incorporating a complementary "pull" or "pop" component.
"Everyday People" was included on the band's classic album Stand! (1969), which sold over three million copies. It is one of the most covered songs in the band's repertoire, with versions by The Winstons, Aretha Franklin, The Staple Singers, William Bell, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Supremes & The Four Tops, Peggy Lee, Belle & Sebastian, Pearl Jam, and Nicole C. Mullen, Ta Mara and the Seen among many others. Hip-hop group Arrested Development used the song as the basis of their 1992 hit, "People Everyday," which reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart and #8 on the Hot 100. Dolly Parton's previously unreleased 1980 cover of the song was included as a bonus track on the 2009 reissue of her 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album. Rolling Stone ranked "Everyday People" as #145 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "Everyday People" was prominently featured in a series of Toyota commercials in the late 1990s as part of their "Everyday" slogan campaign.
The song's title is mentioned in the hit song by Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (For Lettin Me Be Myself Again)" in the third verse, along with their other hit "Dance to the Music".
It really is a great song. Everyone has done a great job covering it but I really have to say that Diana Ross and the Supremes did it best.
Thursday, September 8, 2019. Tulsi continues her vanity campaign, a man
dies in Iraq because the US deported him (that's on us, let's stop
pretending it's Donald Trump -- our Congress could've stopped him, our
courts could have stopped him, this is our tragedy, our crime), and much
more.
US House Rep Tulsi Gabbard continues her vanity campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She'll never get the nomination and her continued 1% polling is an embarrassment. As she continues her vanity campaign, more catch on that she's not anti-war. As Kyle Anzalo observed this week on FOREIGN POLICY FOCUS "There's plenty of war that Tulsi is in support of."
We're so desperate for an anti-war figure that we're willing to applaud someone who'd continue The Drone War? Tulsi is a fake. Last week, as Kyle notes, she voted to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. BDS attempts to do what the anti-apartheid movement did to South Africa.
So basically Tulsi's condemning Dusty Springfield. Considering Tulsi's anti-LGBTQ past, that's not surprising. Dusty, for those who don't know, didn't just sing "The Look Of Love," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and countless other hits. Dusty also stood up and was counted.
Do people not know this? You won't find it in her CRAPAPEDIA entry -- no surprise there, sexism will always reign at CRAPAPAEDIA -- but Dusty stood up. If this is news to you, you can stream a BBC report here about the 1964 tour in South Africa where Dusty refused to play to White only audiences. She was a huge pop star and 25-years-old and when the South African government tried to force her to play to White only audiences, she pointed out that the contract she signed legally guaranteed mixed audiences.
The BDS movement needs support, not condemnation. We discuss it when we speak to campus audiences.
I'm disgusted with Tulsi but she's a reactionary. She's on the wrong side of history and she should pay for it.
I was part of the anti-apartheid movement -- a tiny part -- and was ridiculed for it by a number people when I was in college. The campus paper waged a war on me when I countered the remarks of an idiot White person from South Africa who told the campus paper how wonderful life was for Blacks in South Africa. For defending the rights of the persecuted, the campus paper attempted to ridicule me for months. All it did was create sympathy for me and raise the issue more. I still see those idiots from time to time today, pretending to be so left and liberal but we both know that they are racists to their core. They only 'changed' because the times did. If they had their way, they'd still support apartheid.
I can think of one woman who spearheaded the campaign -- and is a public person today -- and how she now pretends to be so lfet and so loving but she's not. Not only was she in favor of apartheid back then, as late as the 90s she was marrying a known racist who she had to make promise not to use the N-word in front of the press. There are a lot of fake asses out there.
People like her, they didn't grow, they were just shamed into silence and that's what appears to happen with Tulsi over and over. She didn't really grow on the LGBTQ issue, she was shamed into silence. If she'd grown, she'd have some story to share about it. But she has none. And blaming her beliefs on her father? She's as ridiculous as Joe Biden. Or did we all miss her tribute to homophobe father on Father's Day?
Tulsi needs to go. She's not anti-war. She's repeatedly on the wrong side of history and she never learns, she just retreats into silence.
US House Rep Tulsi Gabbard continues her vanity campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She'll never get the nomination and her continued 1% polling is an embarrassment. As she continues her vanity campaign, more catch on that she's not anti-war. As Kyle Anzalo observed this week on FOREIGN POLICY FOCUS "There's plenty of war that Tulsi is in support of."
We're so desperate for an anti-war figure that we're willing to applaud someone who'd continue The Drone War? Tulsi is a fake. Last week, as Kyle notes, she voted to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. BDS attempts to do what the anti-apartheid movement did to South Africa.
So basically Tulsi's condemning Dusty Springfield. Considering Tulsi's anti-LGBTQ past, that's not surprising. Dusty, for those who don't know, didn't just sing "The Look Of Love," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and countless other hits. Dusty also stood up and was counted.
Do people not know this? You won't find it in her CRAPAPEDIA entry -- no surprise there, sexism will always reign at CRAPAPAEDIA -- but Dusty stood up. If this is news to you, you can stream a BBC report here about the 1964 tour in South Africa where Dusty refused to play to White only audiences. She was a huge pop star and 25-years-old and when the South African government tried to force her to play to White only audiences, she pointed out that the contract she signed legally guaranteed mixed audiences.
The BDS movement needs support, not condemnation. We discuss it when we speak to campus audiences.
I'm disgusted with Tulsi but she's a reactionary. She's on the wrong side of history and she should pay for it.
I was part of the anti-apartheid movement -- a tiny part -- and was ridiculed for it by a number people when I was in college. The campus paper waged a war on me when I countered the remarks of an idiot White person from South Africa who told the campus paper how wonderful life was for Blacks in South Africa. For defending the rights of the persecuted, the campus paper attempted to ridicule me for months. All it did was create sympathy for me and raise the issue more. I still see those idiots from time to time today, pretending to be so left and liberal but we both know that they are racists to their core. They only 'changed' because the times did. If they had their way, they'd still support apartheid.
I can think of one woman who spearheaded the campaign -- and is a public person today -- and how she now pretends to be so lfet and so loving but she's not. Not only was she in favor of apartheid back then, as late as the 90s she was marrying a known racist who she had to make promise not to use the N-word in front of the press. There are a lot of fake asses out there.
People like her, they didn't grow, they were just shamed into silence and that's what appears to happen with Tulsi over and over. She didn't really grow on the LGBTQ issue, she was shamed into silence. If she'd grown, she'd have some story to share about it. But she has none. And blaming her beliefs on her father? She's as ridiculous as Joe Biden. Or did we all miss her tribute to homophobe father on Father's Day?
Tulsi needs to go. She's not anti-war. She's repeatedly on the wrong side of history and she never learns, she just retreats into silence.
Tulsi and others who voted for atrocious anti-Palestinian resolution HR 246 are feeling heat and that’s good. But this is a pathetic attempt to justify a wrong and indefensible vote that attacks and smears nonviolent BDS movement because “two-state solution something or other.”
Replying to and
I've muted about 5 people who scold me whenever I dare to criticize—no matter how tepid said criticism is—our lord and savior, Tulsi Gabbard. You guys literally were rationalizing why BDS is bad after her vote. You lack the mental capacity to fight past that cognitive dissonance.
Again, people are catching on to Tulsi.
twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/s…
#Tulsi is pro-peace?
#TulsiGabbard opposed
H.Con.Res55 Rep.Jim McGovern’s (D-MA)resolution which directed the President to withdraw U.S.troops from Iraq/Syria who were deployed on or after August 7,2014
THAT'S WAGING PEACE?
THINK!
#Tulsi2020 #Tytlive #dems
If #Tulsi is Pro-peace
HOWCOME
#Tulsigabbard OPPOSED
H.Amdt.1215 to H.R.5293 Rep. Jim McGovern’s(D-MA) amendment,which would have prohibited funds from being used for the engagement of U.S.Armed Forces in any combat operation in Iraq/Syria
RECORD VS SPIN
IS THAT'S WAGING PEACE?
Last week at the debates, Tulsi was an embarrassment. Jay Inslee and Bill de Blasio tried to talk about the Iraq War and war on Iran, not Tulsi.
While I was in Congress, I cast many votes that I was proud of. I voted against and vocally opposed the Iraq War.
And I know we cannot allow the Trump administration to thrust us into another disastrous war in the Middle East today. #GetToKnowJay
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Tulsi didn't want a serious conversation in the debates. She wasn't the only one, the Sally Jessy of cable 'news,' Don Lemon, didn't want a real discussion either (see Ava and my "TV: Swindling the audience").
In other news . . .
PLEASE READ. THIS IS HORRIBLE.
"A 41-year-old diabetic man who grew up in Detroit died Tuesday after being deported to Iraq, the...
U.S. Deported a Detroit Man to Iraq, Where He’d Never Been and Didn’t Speak the Language. He Died on the Streets.
Immigrant rights advocates say diabetic man died after being deported to Iraq | TheHill thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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ICE deported a guy to Iraq who was not born there, never lived there, spoke no Arabic, and HAD TYPE 1 DIABETES. he died
Jimmy Aldaoud, a 41-year-old Detroit man who had spent most of his life in the U.S. and was deported to Iraq in June by the Trump admin, has died. The death appeared to be linked to the man's inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes.
politico.com/story/2019/08/…
41-year old Jimmy Aldaoud was deported to Iraq by the Trump administration in June after living in the US ever since he was a child.
He died on the streets of Iraq yesterday.
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