“A Family Conversation” is a storytelling audio series that features weekly discussions between blogging cousins LadyG and Ron Brown on current events along with favorite posts from each other’s blog.
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WARNING: Adult Language/Adult Situations
You Gotta Believe in Something
Songwriter: Norman Jesse Whitfield /Performed by: The Pointer Sisters
You got to believe in somethin’
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin’
Why not believe in me?
What have I, I done to you
To make you mean
And treat me the way you do?
Go on and wave your flag, brother
Start your revolution
I’m willin’ to let you do your thing
Tell me, why are you blind
When it comes to mine?
Take the chain off your brain
Take the chain off your brain
Why don’t you let the Wilson (children) set you FREE!
Go to Facebook The Brown Report to link to Ron’s activism related to the officer involved shooting in Cuthbert, Georgia.
Posts discussed in this conversation:
Missing American History Lesson: The Black Codes
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*****Correction:
- Freedman: Freed by the Emancipation Proclaimation
- Free Negro: Freed BEFORE the Civil War via manumission/will
RIP: Bonnie Pointer
