One last horn toot
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serai.
Okay, it's all over. But I thought I'd post one last thing about this election and the euphoria it's inspired among us. Because this is really great.
From Salon.com:
I walked out of Northrop Auditorium Tuesday night after Bob Dylan's concert on the campus of his erstwhile alma mater, the University of Minnesota. The second number of the night was "The Times They Are A-Changin'," a song I never liked. On Tuesday night it moved slowly, crawling like a snake, all 44 years since it first appeared loaded into it, as if its real subject was what it means to wait. The last song was "Blowin' in the Wind." (I remember very clearly the first time I heard it on the radio. "Kinda erstatz," said Barry Franklin, my best friend and radio cruising partner; we were still in high school.) "I was born in 1941, the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I've been living in darkness ever since," Dylan said to introduce the song, or as a goodbye, or, as he hadn't spoken before, as a hello. "But it looks like things are going to change now." At the end of the stage he stepped out from behind his electric organ and did a jig.
I feel as if I'm living in a new world and an old country, where all of its best words, down the centuries, are flesh. Or, as Barry Franklin put it last night, "I feel like I've died and gone to America."
-- Greil Marcus
That last bit just says it all, doesn't it?
Okay, it's all over. But I thought I'd post one last thing about this election and the euphoria it's inspired among us. Because this is really great.
From Salon.com:
I walked out of Northrop Auditorium Tuesday night after Bob Dylan's concert on the campus of his erstwhile alma mater, the University of Minnesota. The second number of the night was "The Times They Are A-Changin'," a song I never liked. On Tuesday night it moved slowly, crawling like a snake, all 44 years since it first appeared loaded into it, as if its real subject was what it means to wait. The last song was "Blowin' in the Wind." (I remember very clearly the first time I heard it on the radio. "Kinda erstatz," said Barry Franklin, my best friend and radio cruising partner; we were still in high school.) "I was born in 1941, the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I've been living in darkness ever since," Dylan said to introduce the song, or as a goodbye, or, as he hadn't spoken before, as a hello. "But it looks like things are going to change now." At the end of the stage he stepped out from behind his electric organ and did a jig.
I feel as if I'm living in a new world and an old country, where all of its best words, down the centuries, are flesh. Or, as Barry Franklin put it last night, "I feel like I've died and gone to America."
-- Greil Marcus
That last bit just says it all, doesn't it?
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Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2008 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2008 10:36 pm (UTC)And so does The Times They Are A-Changing!
Gosh, I'm so happy!!
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Date: Friday, November 7th, 2008 05:04 am (UTC)As I might have mentioned before, I teach at a high school that is heavily minority-populated. 65% Latino, 15% black, less than 15% white, and a few Asian kids. I cannot begin to tell you how happy and buzzed they all are this week. I have heard more intelligent political discussions these last few weeks than I ever have before.
I think we may be seeing the '60s starting all over again, and it's about damn time.
And by the by, they overwhelmingly support gay rights, far more strongly than the more predominantly white schools that I've been at. I think it's far easier for them to identify that it's basically a matter of discrimination, and that's something that resonates strongly with them.
Change will come. There's no holding it back now.