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    Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin, an Icon of the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements


    ARETHA FRANKLIN: [singing] What you want
    Baby, I got it
    What you need
    Do you know I got it
    All I’m askin’
    Is for a little respect
    When you get home (just a little bit)
    Hey baby (just a little bit)
    When you get home (just a little bit)
    Mister (just a little bit)

    I ain’t gonna do you wrong
    While you’re gone
    Ain’t gonna do you wrong
    Cause I don’t wanna
    All I’m askin’
    Is for a little respect
    When you get home (just a little bit)
    Baby (just a little bit)
    When you get home (just a little bit)
    Yeah (just a little bit)

    AMY GOODMAN: Aretha recorded “Respect” on Valentine’s Day 1967. It soon became the soundtrack of the civil right movement. A year later, she would sing at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral after his assassination in 1968. The Reverend Jesse Jackson said Aretha anonymously helped fund the civil rights movement for decades. He said, quote, “When Dr. King was alive, several times she helped us make payroll. … Aretha has always been a very socially conscious artist, an inspiration, not just an entertainer.”

    In 1970, Aretha Franklin offered to post bail for Angela Davis, who was in jail on trumped-up charges. She told Jet magazine, “Angela Davis must go free. Black people will be free. … I’m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she’s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people,” Aretha said. Later in the show, we’ll speak with professor Angela Davis herself about what Aretha Franklin’s support meant to her.

    Aretha would go on to sing at the inaugurations of three presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. In a statement, Barack and Michelle Obama said, quote, “For more than six decades…every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine.”

    Today we spend the hour looking at the extraordinary life and legacy of Aretha Franklin. After break, we’ll begin with two guests: here in New York, Columbia University’s Farah Jasmine Griffin, and at Duke University in North Carolina, we’ll be joined by Mark Anthony Neal. And then from Martha’s Vineyard, Angela Davis herself will join us to talk about what Aretha Franklin meant to her. Stay with us.

    Source: https://truthout.org/video/aretha-franklin-was-an-icon-of-the-civil-rights-and-feminist-movements/

    Sorry, I goofed by putting the URL in the Title place. I am hoping a mod will take the http:// out of it. Thank you!
     
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  2. Robert

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    When is the last time a white female singer got showed any respect by the media? When one died, who lionized her?
     
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    Tell which one you believe deserved it and I'll look it up.
     
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    I like aretha franklins singing

    But not her politics
     
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    Well done. Helped me make my point.
     
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    So you realized there were no white female singers who have passed that deserved admiration or what? Your post suggested you could name a dead white female singer who didn't get the praise she deserved.
     
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    What do you consider "worth it"?

    Is it only being black? Is it onlly being a woman?

    I thought those were the two big things people cared about, but now it seems like you have to have a certain ideology to be "remembered".

    "Remembering" anyone other than a Leftists seems to come with the "YOU ARE A WHITE SUPREMIST NAZI BIGOT!" title along with it.
     
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    Hunh? Usually celebrities are remembered and admired upon death. I was addressing an idea (not outright stated) that seems to suggest some sort of white persecution and wanted the poster to realize that it was silly to try.

    To answer your question I believe those who make a major impact, positive or negative, on society should be remembered.
     
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    I'm surprised nobody has jumped on the Fox mixup yet.
     
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    Is that right. I searched for dead white singers that got such praise. Did you find one? That proves my point that the media treats them different than were they black.
     
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    Aretha was a great singer

    She really had a voice and a style that people liked

    But she was after all just a singer
     
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    Dame Joan Sutherland springs to mind

    Edith Piaf

    Karen Carpenter

    To name a few.....
     
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    I did a search and found tons

    https://www.thetoptens.com/best-deceased-singers/

    Nothing will beat the outpouring of grief when Lennon was shot
     
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    Found one.

    What about Marilyn Monroe? She was a white female singer and icon. Pinterest users have a lot of her tributes too.

    When I looked up the best white female singers, I see that most are still alive. The ones who died did so a very long time ago.
     
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    I didn't know Marilyn sang! :crazy:
     

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