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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 3 months

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By: Francesca Block

Published: Jan 15, 2024

In the 1960s, when Clarence Jones was writing speeches for Martin Luther King Jr., he used to joke with the civil rights leader: “You don’t deserve me, man.”

“Why?” King would ask.

“I hear your voice in my head. I hear your voice in perfect pitch,” Jones would respond. “So when I write, I can write words that accurately reflect the way you actually speak.”

King would agree. “Man, you are scary. It’s like you’re right in my head.”

And Jones is still, in his mind, having conversations with his friend, who was assassinated at the age of 39 on a Memphis hotel balcony in 1968. Especially now, as America’s racial climate seems to have worsened, despite the fact that King successfully fought to ensure all Americans are given equal protection under the law, regardless of their skin color. A poll from 2021 shows that 57 percent of U.S. adults view the relations between black and white Americans to be “somewhat” or “very” bad—compared to just 35 percent who felt that way a decade ago.

Jones knows exactly what King would have felt about that. He says it out loud, and directs it to his late mentor: “Martin, I’m pissed off at you. I’m angry at you. We should have been more protective of you. We need you. You wouldn’t permit what’s going on if you were here.

“We are trying to save the soul of America.”

[ Jones, behind Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, wrote: “I saw history unfold in a way no one else could have. Behind the scenes.” ]

I spoke to Jones, 93, two weeks ago as he sat on a beige couch in the humble second-floor apartment in Palo Alto, California, that he shares with his wife. A black-and-white close-up of King sits directly above his head, almost like a north star.

“Regrettably, some very important parts of his message are not being remembered,” Jones said, referring to King’s belief in “radical nonviolence” and his eagerness to build allies across ethnic lines.

“Put in a more negative way,” he added, King’s messages “have been forgotten.”

Jones was a young, up-and-coming entertainment lawyer when he first met King in February 1960. The preacher had turned up on the doorstep of his California home and tried to convince him to move to Alabama to defend him from a tax evasion case. But Jones wasn’t interested.

“Just because some preacher got his hand caught in the cookie jar stealing, that ain’t my problem,” he said in a talk, years later.

But King wasn’t one to give up easily. He invited Jones to attend his sermon at a nearby Baptist church in a well-to-do black neighborhood of Los Angeles. Standing at the pulpit, King spoke to a congregation of over a thousand people, delivering a message that seemed almost tailor-made for Jones.

Jones remembers King talking about how black professionals needed to help their less fortunate “brothers and sisters” in the struggle for equality. He realized, then and there, what an incredible speaker King was, and felt compelled to join his cause.

“Martin Luther King Jr. was the baddest dude I knew in my lifetime,” Jones says.

Jones moved down to Alabama to join King’s legal team. He helped free King of any charges in Alabama, and quickly became one of the leader’s closest confidants, and ultimately, his key speechwriter.

Jones refers to himself and King as “the odd couple,” because, he says, “we were so different.” King was the son of a preacher from a middle-class family in the South. Jones grew up the son of servants, raised by Catholic nuns in foster care in Philadelphia, who he credits with instilling in him “a foundation of self-confidence that was like a piece of steel in my spine.”

He said this confidence propelled him to graduate as the valedictorian from his mixed-race high school just across the border in New Jersey, and then on to Columbia University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1953. After a brief stint in the army, where he was discharged for refusing to sign a pledge stating that he was not a member of the Communist Party, Jones enrolled at the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1959.

Though Jones was mainly a background figure in the 1960s civil rights movement, it might not have been possible without him. He fundraised for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference so successfully that Vanity Fair later called him “the moneyman of the movement.” In 1963, when King was in prison, Jones helped smuggle out his notes, stuffing the words King scrawled on old newspapers and toilet paper into his pants and walking out.

Later, he helped string those notes together into King’s famous address, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which argued the case for civil disobedience, and was eventually published in every major newspaper in the country.

Jones then wooed enough deep-pocketed donors, including New York’s then-governor Nelson Rockefeller, to raise the bail needed to release King and many other young protesters from jail.

Jones also helped write many of King’s most iconic speeches—“not because Dr. King wasn’t capable of doing it,” Jones emphasized—“but he didn’t have the time.” Jones crafted the opening lines of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech from his D.C. hotel room on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington. In his book, Behind the Dream, he recounts how he penned their shared vision for a better nation onto sheets of yellow, lined, legal notepaper, many of which ended up crumpled on the floor.

But he didn’t write the most famous words: “I Have a Dream”—that was all King, his book notes. “I would deliver four strong walls and he would use his God-given abilities to furnish the place so it felt like home,” Jones writes about their speech-writing dynamic.

The day after he wrote that speech, Jones stood just fifty feet behind King as he delivered it to the hundreds of thousands gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “I saw history unfold in a way no one else could have,” Jones writes. “Behind the scenes.”

The movement King led with Jones by his side helped achieve school integration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

So, when asked if America has made any progress on race, Jones is dumbstruck. “Are you kidding?” he said, with shock in his voice. “Any person who says that to the contrary, any black person who alleges themselves to be a scholar, or any white person who says otherwise, they’re just not telling you the truth.

“Bring back some black person who was alive in 1863, and bring them back today,” he adds. “Have them be a witness.”

But after the death of George Floyd in 2020, 44 percent of black Americans polled said “equality for black people in the U.S. is a little or not at all likely.” And “color blindness”—the once aspirational idea of judging people by their character rather than their skin color, which King famously espoused—has fallen out of fashion. The dominant voices of today’s black rights movement argue that people should be treated differently because of their skin color, to make up for the harms of the past. One of America’s most prominent black thinkers, Ibram X. Kendi, argues that past discrimination can only be remedied by present discrimination.

Jones makes it clear he doesn’t want to live in a society that doesn’t see race. “You don’t want to be blind to color. You want to see color. I want to be very aware of color.”

But, he emphasizes: “I just don’t want to attach any conditions to equality to color.”

He adds that it’s possible to read Kendi’s prize-winning book, Stamped from the Beginning, and “come away believing that America is irredeemably racist, beyond redemption.”

It’s a theory he vehemently disagrees with. “That would violate everything that Martin King and I worked for,” he said. It would mean “it’s not possible for white racist people to change.”

“Well, I am telling you something,” Jones adds. “We have empirical evidence that we changed the country.”

Jones is the first to admit King and his circle didn’t change the country on their own.

“As powerful as he was at moving the country, I tell everybody, there’s no way in hell that he or we would have achieved what we achieved without the coalition support of the American Jewish community.”

Jones especially gives credit to Stanley Levinson, who also advised King and helped write his speeches, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who marched alongside King in Selma, Alabama. He remembers being on the picket lines and talking to Jewish protesters who told him about their own families’ experiences in the Holocaust.

“There would have been no Civil Rights Act of 1964, no Voting Rights Act of 1965, had it not been for the coalition of blacks and Jews that made it happen,” Jones says.

Now, in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack against Israel, Jones said he fears that relations between the Jewish and the black communities in America are beginning to unravel.

He said he has seen how, days after the attack, college students—many of them black—marched on campus, chanting for the death of Israel.

“It pains me today when I hear so-called radical blacks criticizing Israel for getting rid of Hamas. So I say to them, what do you expect them to do?”

He continues: “A black person being antisemitic is literally shooting themselves in the foot.”

Long before October 7, Jones has proudly shown his allegiance to the Jewish people: a gold mezuzah—the small decorative case, which Jews fix to their door frames to bless their homes—is nailed outside his Palo Alto apartment.

“I’m like an old dog who’s just not amenable to new tricks right now,” Jones says. “I have to go on the tricks that I’ve been taught, that got me where I am at 93 years of age. And those old tricks are: you stay with an alliance with the American Jewish community because it’s that alliance that got us this far.

“I am damn sure, at this time in my life, I’m not going to turn my back. This time is more urgent than ever.”

Meanwhile, Jones worries that some of today’s social justice measures have strayed too far from King’s original message. He points to an ethnic studies curriculum for public schools in California, proposed in 2020, which sought to teach K–12 students about the marginalization of black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American peoples.

Jones fiercely opposed the new curriculum recommendations, calling them, in a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, a “perversion of history” that “will inflict great harm on millions of students in our state.” He wrote that the proposed curriculum excluded “the intellectual and moral basis for radical nonviolence advocated by Dr. King” and his colleagues.

“They were promoting black nationalism,” he told me. “They were promoting blackness over excellence.”

California later passed a watered-down version of the curriculum.

At the same time, Jones feels more conflicted about affirmative action, a policy he believes was grounded in “the most genuine, the most beautiful, the most thoughtful” intentions, and that it helped to “accelerate the timetable. . . to truly give black people equal access.”

Even so, he is pragmatic about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike it down last year. “You had to stop the escalator somewhere.”

[ Jones is still working. He released his autobiography, The Last of the Lions, in August, and is now recording the audiobook. ]

In the immediate years after King’s death in 1968, Jones struggled to find a path forward. He was angry and even considered “taking up arms against the government,” which he blamed for allowing King’s death to happen.

For a while, Jones dabbled in politics—serving as a New York State delegate at the 1968 Democratic Convention—and then in media, purchasing a part of the influential black paper New York Amsterdam News. In 1971, he acted as a negotiator on behalf of some of the inmates behind the Attica prison uprising, unsuccessfully trying to seek a peaceful resolution.

But King’s voice—always in his head—eventually steered him back toward his original purpose.

A father of five, Jones lives with his wife, Lin, just a five-minute walk from the Stanford campus where he maintains an affiliation with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. In 2018, Jones co-founded the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice to teach the lessons of King and Mahatma Gandhi “in response to the moral emergencies of the twenty-first century.”

He is also the chairman of Spill the Honey, a nonprofit founded in 2012 to honor the legacies of King and Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. And in August 2023, he released his autobiography, The Last of the Lions, so named because he is possibly the only member of King’s civil rights circle still alive. “There’s an African saying that I often reflect upon when I think about his legacy and my own part in his movement,” Jones writes in his book. “If the surviving lions don’t tell their stories, the hunters will take all the credit.”

Although the eight years he spent with King happened more than half a century ago, Jones told me he now sees his mission as clearly as ever. Asked if he has a message for young black Americans on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he doesn’t hesitate.

“Commit yourself irredeemably to the pursuit of personal excellence,” he says emphatically. “Be the very best that you can be. If you do that. . . our color becomes more relevant, because we demonstrate ‘black is beautiful’ not as some slogan, but black is beautiful because of its commitment to personal excellence, which has no color.”

What's going on now is what happens when activists and fanatics, such as frauds like Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones, construct history curriculum, not actual historians. If they teach the Jewish allyship with the Civil Rights Movements at all, it will be wrapped in conspiracy theory such as "interest convergence."

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-conspiracy-theory/

This doctrine insists that white people (as the racially privileged group) only take action to expand opportunities for people of color, especially blacks (see also, BIPOC), when it is in their own self-interest to do so, and in which case the result is usually the further entrenchment of racism that is harder to detect and fight. Under interest convergence, every action taken that might ameliorate or lessen racism (see also, antiracism) not only maintains racism, but does so because it was organized in the interests of white people who sought to maintain their power, privilege, and advantage through the intervention.

One of the truly gross and despicable things about frauds like Kendi is that while he pulls every bogus fallacy to assert that nothing has changed - it's a tenet of Critical Race Theory that nothing has changed, racism has only gotten better at hiding itself and becoming more entrenched - his own success blows this conspiracy theory completely out of the water, given how fawning his acolytes are about his wildly overstated wisdom, and the number of white fans he's accumulated who masochistically want to be told how racist they are and how much they hurt black folk every single day.

That's not possible unless racism is both aberrant and socially and culturally unacceptable.

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angryrdpanda · 3 days

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"The major problem with Israel is with the young generation of the black community — Black Lives Matter starts there,” stated Judith Varnai Shorer, the Israeli consul general in Atlanta, Georgia [in 2016]. Shorer boasted that she and other government officials were taking decisive measures to drive a wedge between established black community leadership and the new generation gravitating towards Black Lives Matter. “I had last week a sit down dinner at my house for forty people which I considered the leadership of the black community,” the Israeli diplomat recalled. “Many very important people [were there]. They can be part of our doing and activities.”

As mentioned in the clip, part of the Israel lobby's strategy included tapping former MLK Jr. lawyer Clarence B. Jones to publish three HuffPo articles discouraging BLM from linking anti-police brutality efforts to the Palestinian struggle.

More at The Grayzone

#The Grayzone #media #israeli occupation #israeli lobby #Black Lives Matter #BLM #BDS #Free Palestine #Clarence B. Jones #Martin Luther King Jr.#zionism #Youtube #Black tumblr

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strangesmallbard · 3 months

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hey so. i’ve seen many people reblogging some variation of “israel spent millions on a superbowl ad to distract everyone from the airstrikes on rafah” and decided to do some fact-checking. the ad was produced by the kraft foundation to stop jewish hate, founded by robert kraft, who owns the patriots. kraft also partnered with dr. clarence b. jones—who advised dr. martin king luther jr and helped him write the i have a dream speech—to create this ad. according to tara levine, the fcas president, this ad was made in response to rising antisemitism on social media platforms, which her team tracks.

here’s a link to the foundation’s about page on their website. their mission statement solely focuses on combatting antisemitism and does not mention i/p or the ongoing war. the ad itself does not mention i/p or the ongoing war. it’s pretty ironic, and yet not surprising, that an ad created to stop antisemitism is currently the eye of the antisemitic storm on social media. if you sincerely believe netanyahu secretly funded this ad campaign to “distract everyone” from the idf’s airstrike attack in rafa, then you have bought into two different antisemitic conspiracy theories: that jews control the media and that diasporic jews have dual loyalty to israel. while political zionists have used accusations of antisemitism to invalidate pro-palestinian efforts, that’s not what’s happening here. all this information is obtainable via google. please learn to fact check yourselves before posting. thanks!

(bonus: here’s a 20-minute video where kraft and dr. jones discuss the civil rights movement, anti-black racism, antisemitism, and the history of solidarity between black and jewish activists during the civil rights movement.)

EDIT 2/23/24:

after publishing this post, i researched robert kraft and fcas' funding source and pro-israel efforts more deeply, then analyzed my findings in a reblog, which you can read here. tl;dr version - in 2019, kraft was given the genesis prize, a $1 million dollar award. the awarding foundation has direct ties to the israeli government. kraft used part of these funds to finance fcas. this additional information does not negate my original post, however; i can't find any conclusive evidence that the israeli government directly funded kraft's superbowl ad. there is also no evidence that kraft is targeting anti-israel sentiment in the ad rather than antisemitism overall. assuming this connection is still evidence of antisemitic conspiratorial thought, as i detail above.

i'm including this information because i believe it's important to acknolwedge wider context. i don't share kraft's politics re: israel and believe his stance compromises his foundation's overall messaging. i also condemn any efforts to silence pro-palestinian efforts with accusations of antisemitism, but that is still not what's happening here. i also want to clarify that i'm only discussing responses i've seen to kraft's ad, not the ads produced by the israeli government. thanks again!

#i/p #antisemitism #yell.txt

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companion-showdown · 2 months

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Best companion to get intoxicated with: Round 0 Masterpost

the elimintation numbers on the posts themselves are largely wrong because I made a mistake and only realised when it was too late, its two per group except 14 and 15 which is 3

Day 2

Elimination Groups:

Group 8 (2 eliminations)

God the Computer

Hallan

Hass

Hebe Harrison

Hex Schofield

Irving Braxiatel

Jack McSpringheel

Group 9 (2 eliminations)

Jane Austen

Jason Kane

John (Another Girl, Another Planet)

Joseph (Oh No it Isn't)

Joseph (The Doomsday Manuscript)

Koschei

Laura Tobin

Group 10 (2 eliminations)

Lola Denison

Mark Seven

McQueen!Master

Miranda Who

Mother Francesca

Mother Mathara

Mr Crofton

Group 11 (2 eliminations)

Ms Jones

Narvin

Pandora

Peter Summerfield

Preacher!Master

Renee Thalia

Romana III

Group 12 (2 eliminations)

Ruth Leonidus

Sabbath Dei

Sam Bishop

Scarlette

Stratum Seven Agent

Tameka Vito

The Black Dalek Leader

Group 13 (2 eliminations)

The Earl of Sandwich

The Original Golden Dalek Emperor

The War King

Unnamed Courtesan (In the Year of the Cat)

V.M.McCrimmon

Valarie Lockwood

Wolsey

Group 14 (3 eliminations)

Ianto Jones

Toshiko Sato

Owen Harper

Andy Davidson

Gwen Cooper

Banana Boat

The TARDIS

Missy

Group 15 (3 eliminations)

Sally Sparrow

Larry Nightingale

Bannakaffalatta

Vincent van Gogh

Madam Vastra

Psi

Saibra

Beep the Meep

Seeding Groups

Group 8

Charley Pollard

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

Liv Chenka

Group 9

Bernice Summerfield

Fitz Kreiner

Frobisher

Iris Wildthyme

Group 10

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

Group 11

Donna Noble

Wilfred Mott

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Group 12

Clara Oswald

Bill Potts

Nardole

Yasmin Khan

Group 13

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

day 1 under the cut

Day 1

Elimination Groups:

Group 1 (2 eliminations)

Sara Kingdom

Bret Vyon

Delgado!Master

Morbius

Sutekh the Destroyer

Cessiar of Diplos

Duggan

Group 2 (2 eliminations)

Erato

Pangol of Argolis

Deedrix of Tigella

Soldeed of Skonnos

The Three who Rule

Varsh

Group 3 (2 eliminations)

Keara

Tylos

Tremas of Traken

Panna

Karuna

Aris

Group 4 (2 eliminations)

Richard Mace

Kamelion

King Yrcanos

Sabalom Glitz

The Kandyman

Karra

Group 5 (2 eliminations)

Adrien Wall

Alan Turing

B-Aaron

C'rizz

Captain Black

Captain Magenta

Carmen Yeh

Group 6 (2 eliminations)

Chris Cwej

Clarence the Angel

Compassion

Cousin Anastasia

Cousin Gustav

Cousin Intrepid

Cousin Justine

Group 7 (2 eliminations)

Cousin Octavia

D'eon

Death's Head

Eliza

Elspeth (Where Angels Fear)

Emilie Mars-Smith

Father Kreiner

Seeding Groups

Group 1

Susan Foreman

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki Pallister

Group 2

Steven Taylor

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

Group 3

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

Group 4

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

Group 5

Leela

Romana I

Romana II

Group 6

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Group 7

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Chang Lee

Grace Holloway

#intoxication: round 0

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 months

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More on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

Many readers sent notes saying that they read MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail after I linked to it in the newsletter on MLK Day earlier this week. Everyone who wrote to me said they were moved and impressed by Dr. King’s message. One reader, Nancy C., sent a note with a link to a story explaining how Dr. King wrote the Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

As Dr. King sat in jail, eight ministers published a letter rebuking his non-violent movement. He decided to respond. Here is what happened next, in the words of Willie Pearl Mackey King, who served as a receptionist / typist for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference:

Dr. King decided that he was going to write an answer. He was in jail, and he asked the jailers for pen and paper. They said, “You’re not in a library! You don’t get anything to write with.” He wrote on the edges of newspaper, on toilet paper, on sandwich bags. His attorney Clarence Jones hid the scraps under his suit jacket and slipped them out of the jail. We had to put together this jigsaw puzzle. We were on the floor, trying to figure it out, Scotch-taping things together. Dr. King’s handwriting was not the best. The lighting was terrible in his jail cell. I was not allowed to leave the office for three days and two nights. I typed this document on an IBM Selectric typewriter, not a computer where you could cut and paste. If I made a mistake, I had to redo everything. [¶] That is how we developed the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” When we released it, no one paid attention at first. Only when Bull Connor [the city’s commissioner of public safety] ordered fire hoses and dogs onto the demonstrators in Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park did we start getting requests for the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” I could not mimeograph enough copies.

If you haven’t had a chance to read Letter from Birmingham Jail, the week honoring Dr. King’s birthday is a good time to do so!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Letter From Birmingham Jail #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #history #Robert B. Hubbell #Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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jrwi-art-archive · 8 months

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Directionary:

(dividers by @cafekitsune )

Tws will be tagged as #tw trigger or #trigger

Campaigns:

The fated: #campaign: fated

Convergence: #campaign: convergence

Riptide and Black Rose Oneshot: #campaign: riptide

Prime Defenders and Age of Heroes Oneshot: #campaign: pd

Apotheosis: #campaign: apotheosis

Blood in the Bayou: #campaign: bitb

The Suckening: #campaign: suckening

Mythborne: #campaign: mythborne

Paradise Chronicles: #oneshot: paradise chronicles

Monster Control Service: #oneshot: monster control service

The final Episode: #oneshot: the final episode

Twitch Chat Oneshot: #oneshot: twitch chat

Player Characters:

The Fated:

#Br’aad Vengolor

#Sylnan Vengolor

#Velrisa

#Taxi

#Mountain

Convergence:

#Alastyr Cross

#Flynn Gustwind

#Kasper

#Kroe Wyse

Riptide:

#Gillion Tidestrider

#Jay Ferin

#Chip

#Goobleck

#Doppelgillion (all Doppelgillion posts will be tagged as Gillion as well)

Black Rose:

#Drey Ferin

#Finn Tidestrider

#Arlin James

Prime Defenders:

#Dakota Cole

#William Wisp

#Vyncent Sol

Age of Heroes:

#Ms. G

#Harlem Shade

#Jason King

Apotheosis:

#Peter Sqloint

Rumi/any of their other forms: #Rumi

#Thanatos

Blood in the Bayou:

#Rolan Deep

#Timothy Rand

#Kian Stone

The Suckening:

#Emizel Tucker

#Shilo Bathory

#Arthur Bennett

Mythborne:

#Aster Aeliana

#Ryan Selucreh

#Connor Connors

Paradise Chronicles:

#Beepo

#Ash

#Captain Justice

#Mike Shore

Monster Control Service:

#Richard

#Chase

The Final Episode:

#Aren Auguste

#Jebediah Lightbringer

#Cherry Blossom

Twitch Chat Oneshot:

#Ikarus Gay Phoenix

#Gravel Igbe Flint

Guest Characters:

Riptide:

#Duke D. Dukem

#Clorten

#La Alma

PD:

#Ashe Winters

NPCs

The Fated:

#Miriam Vengolor

#Alwyn Vengolor

Riptide:

#Lizzie Lafayette

#Caspian

#Ollie Teach

#Felipe

#Alphonze

#Niklaus Hendrix

#Pretzel the Frogtopus

#Jayson Ferin

#Ava Ferin

#May Ferin

#Edyn Tidestrider

#Lunadeiys

#Aster (goddess)

#Anastasia

#Rudith

#Aslana

#Old man earl

#Zamia

#Marshall John

#Kira

#Captain Widow

#Reuben Price

#Starling

#Jasmine Drake

#Lucy the goat

Prime Defenders:

#Le Frog

#Trickster

#Mark Winters

#Mynerva

#Lightspeed

#Summer Dileo

#Doug

#Tide Lambert

#Mark Winters

#Cantrip

#Xavier

#Alan

#Alastyr Cross

#Anna Sol

#Mr. Wisp

#Janet Wisp

#Alaska Damascus

#Wordsmith

#Bookworm

#Grandma Cole

#Mato Cole

#Alexander Hamilton

#Rosemary

#Finger

#Handjob

#Flow

#Peelbert

#Unnamed Hero

#Diana Shane

#Dave

#David Bell

#Mallard Conway

#Clarence Albert

#ram

#Bobo

Apotheosis:

#Lizard the lizard

#Yuri Dawnguard

Bitb:

#Becky Jones

#Rachel Rand

#Officer Dudes

#Rat Sanders

#Sarah Thompson

#Jesse

The Suckening:

#Theo Collins

#void the cat

#Grefgore

#Uncle Lazarus

#Deacan Keller

#Queen Bathory (stand-in tag)

#Edward Twilight

#Viv Weylin

#Vex Weylin

Ships

(all ship-art will be tagged with #jrwi shipping!)

(i will tag ships if op also tagged a ship)

Riptide:

Gillion x Chip: #Fish and Chips

Gillion x Jay: #Navyseal

Jay x Chip: #Mockingjay

Caspian x Gillion: #Swordfish

Ava x Lizzie: #Waning Crescent

Jay x Lizzie: #Pistolwhip

Jay x Anastasia: #Bloodshot

Jay x Edyn: #Sheshells

Jay x Chip x Gillion: #Poly Pirates

Chip x Niklaus: #Fools Gold

Chip x Queen: #Chiptune

Niklaus x Caspian: #Wishingpool

Chip x Jazz: #Scarlet Captains

Caspian x Lizzie: #Rosewater

Goobleck x Felipe: #Gummyfrog

PD:

Dakota x William: #Ghostkicks

Apotheosis:

Rumi x Peter: #Angelstone

Bitb:

Rand x Rolan: #Keeperschampion

Rand x Rolan x Kian: #Nbr

Becky x Kian: #heartstrings

The Suckening:

Emizel x Soda: #fizzfangs

Shilo x Grefgore: #armored pheasant

Crossover:

William x Chip: #Flying Dutchman

Types of media

digital art: #digital

traditional art: #traditional

#webweave

#fanfic

#collage

#crochet

#video (animations, animatics etc. I don’t really want to judge what counts as animation/animatic so I will tag everything with #video, including gifs)

#stimboard (I know that stimboards aren’t usually considered art, but i like them so I’m gonna include them on this blog. for consistency’s sake i’ll tag stimboard makers artist:*insert name*)

Misc

#crossover (includes crossovers between campaigns and between jrwi and other media)

#official art

#jrwi au

AUs/Crossovers

#pokemon

#ponies

#cats

#vampires

#fnaf

#marvel

#tma (the magnus archives)

#trolls

#spiderverse (will also be tagged as marvel)

#marvel

(wip)

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jazzplusplus · 1 year

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Hank Jones (p), Jesper Lundgaard (b), Clarence Penn (dr) + Bob Mintzer (ts), George Robert (as), Bobby Shew (tp), Wallace Roney (tp), Bert Joris (fgh)

#jazz #jazz festival #bern jazz festival #hank jones #jesper lundgaard #clarence penn #bob mintzer #george robert #bobby shew #wallace roney #bert joris #1997

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What do each of these artworks have in common? They really grow on you. 🧔⁠ ⁠ We can't let #WorldBeardDay pass without sharing some of the glorious, global, and even ancient beards from our collection.

🖼️ Mountain Spirit (Sanshin), 19th century. Ink and color on silk, Image. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 84.145 → Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906). William Cullen Bryant, 1866. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, Carll H. de Silver, Eugene G. Blackford, Clarence W. Seamans, Horace J. Morse, Robert B. Woodward, James R. Howe, William B. Davenport, Frank S. Jones, Abraham Abraham, and Charles A. Schieren, 01.1507 → Roman. Head of Serapis, 75-150 C.E. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1522E. Creative Commons-BY → Ramses II, ca. 1279-1213 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 11.670. Creative Commons-BY → Makonde artist. Mask (lipiko), 19th century. Wood, human hair, fiber, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.1588. Creative Commons-BY → Indian. Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains, ca. 1570. Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, sheet. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 24.48

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #sculpture #painting #bkmamericanart #bkmartsofasia #bkmartsofafrica #beard

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bananalan · 2 years

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Just the two of us song year

"Harlem," the stomping opener, was released as the first single, but radio DJs favored the mournful ballad on the B-side, "Ain't No Sunshine." Sussex responded with a pressing that switched designations, and the new A-side scaled to number three on the Hot 100 (and number six on the R&B chart). The album entered the Billboard's Top LP's chart in June 1971. Jones and most of the producer, keyboardist, and bandleader's partners in the M.G.'s, along with Stephen Stills (guitar), Jim Keltner (drums), and Chris Ethridge (bass), Withers cut Just as I Am, a 12-song set with ten originals. Physically moved by an original titled "Grandma's Hands," Avant signed Withers to Sussex. Rhythm Band's Ray Jackson, one of the musicians hired to help, took the tape to the Stax label's Forest Hamilton, who arranged to have Sussex Records' Clarence Avant meet Withers. A little later, having moved to Los Angeles and landed another aircraft mechanic job - more specifically as a toilet installer - Withers invested in recording a demo. Withers soon made his recorded debut with the self-composed "Three Nights and a Morning," an uptempo hardscrabble shouter produced, arranged, and released by Mort Garson, but the 1967 single was a one-off. While at an Oakland club to see Lou Rawls, Withers overheard how much the star would be profiting from the gig, and was consequently motivated to buy a guitar and develop his singing and writing skills. Discharged after nine years of service, Withers relocated to San Jose, where he worked as a milkman, made aircraft parts, and eventually worked on planes. Navy, where he served as an aircraft mechanic. Withers spent his late teens and most of his twenties in the U.S. He wrote his first song at the age of four, but his talent wouldn't truly manifest for another three decades. was born in Slab Fork, West Virginia on July 4, 1938, and was raised in nearby Beckley. The son of a maid and a coal miner, William Harrison Withers, Jr. Given his flowers before his death at the age of 81, Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early to leave, Withers made his last statement with Watching You Watching Me (1985), closing a songbook that has served as a bountiful resource for artists from a multitude of stylistic persuasions. He collected more gold singles with "Lean on Me" and "Use Me," both off the similarly successful Still Bill (1972), reached the same height with Menagerie (1977), led by "Lovely Day," and was handed a second Grammy for "Just the Two of Us" (1981), his collaboration with Grover Washington, Jr. Through the next ten years, Withers continued to meld soul, gospel, folk, and funk with rare finesse. Late to arrive, the everyman R&B paragon had just turned 33 when "Ain't No Sunshine," the unfading ballad off Just as I Am (1971), made him a sudden and unlikely success story, within one year an aircraft mechanic-turned-million-selling, Grammy-winning artist. Even smaller in number are the songwriters who have shared the West Virginian's natural ability to articulate a comprehensive range of emotions and perspectives - jubilation and gratitude, jealousy, and spite - with maximal levels of conviction and concision. Few singers have possessed a baritone as rich and comforting as that of Bill Withers.

#Just the two of us song year

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FIJM: Lee Fields à la Place des Festivals ce lundi 4 juillet 2022

Un de mes chanteurs soul préférés, Lee Fields, est en concert ce lundi 4 juillet à 21h30 à la Place des Festivals.

Ce sera la 5e fois que je le verrai sur scène. J’en profite pour re-publier mon entrevue avec lui parue à la une de HOUR en 2011.

TENACIOUS LEE

Lee Fields takes us through a four-decade journey that has included fronting Kool & The Gang, struggling to step out of James Brown’s shadow and having Sharon Jones sing backup for him

(June 16, 2011)

Sitting at the top of my personal musical pantheon, or damn near it, are the great soul men of the 1960s and 1970s. Marvin Gaye. Otis Redding. Sam Cooke. Al Green. If you ask me, Lee Fields belongs in that rarefied company, even though he’s hardly as well known as the aforementioned R&B titans.

If you were at his 2009 Pop Montreal midnight show, in a Sala Rossa packed with people grooving to the sounds of the singer and his band, The Expressions, you know what I’m talking about. “Man, I tell you, I just be having so much fun,” Lee Fields says over the line when I tell him about that memorable concert. “Every night, walking on stage, it’s a privilege first of all, and to get the chance to do it over and over again? I’m like a kid in a candy shop!”

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, Fields started out singing in church, which was not that different than what he’s doing now, according to him. “See, gospel is about letting the spirit shine through. When I’m singing whatever music, I do the same thing,” he explains. “The only difference between gospel and R&B is that gospel is singing about the good news of our Lord and Saviour, and R&B is singing about all of the trials and tribulations that you have here on Earth.”

COULD HAVE BEEN

As a fan of artists such as Wilson Pickett, Tyrone Davis, Clarence Carter and O.V. Wright (“I could go on and on!”), Lee Fields began his career in the late 1960s as a singer with various bands, including Kool & The Gang before their breakthrough.

“Gene Redd, their manager at the time, saw me performing somewhere and he thought it would be a good idea to put me with them,” Fields remembers. “So I worked with them for maybe six months, we did shows at clubs and some theatres. It was a good combination, but the thing is, those guys would do a hard show and as soon as they’d get off the stage, still with sweat on them, they’d say, ‘Let’s go back to the dressing room and talk about how we can make the show better next time.’ I said, ‘Are you crazy? I thought that after you got off stage, you went out there and had yourself a good time for a minute!’ But they were so focused and I must say that, at the time, it was beyond what I had as far as self-discipline. Still, it was a great experience and I learned a lot from them.”

As a solo artist, Fields released a bunch of 7-inch singles throughout the 1970s, but he didn’t put out a full-length album until 1979′s classic Let’s Talk It Over. Why did it take so long? “I was really trying to find myself as an artist,” he says. “I kept being told I was like James Brown. Whatever I did, it seemed like I was labelled, ‘He’s a replica, he’s not an original.’ That’s what I was sensing and for that period, I was looking to find me, to find who I was as an artist. It’s hard when you resemble somebody so closely… I know the resemblance is uncanny because my own daughter, when she was a little girl, she’d see pictures of James Brown and say, ‘Daddy!’” he says laughing. “Finding myself took a long time, but trust me, man, it was well worth it. Because I know that when people see me now, they see Lee.”

Alas, almost as soon as Fields found himself, the musical landscape changed and he found that his sound wasn’t fashionable anymore. “It was rough in the 80s for me,” admits the singer. “A few shows here, a few shows there, and I had to get mainly involved with real estate. Which I’m glad I did, because it panned out really well for me. Didn’t get rich, but I live a pretty comfortable life, and I got the chance to raise my family. But the longing for music was always there.”

DAPTONE GOLD

It took until the 1990s before he could begin his comeback, first by investing in some recording equipment and cutting some songs at home, then by heavily touring through the southern United States. Fields also released a few albums on the Ace label and one on Avanti Records, slowly but surely building a new fan base.

And then began his formidable collaboration with Philip Lehman and Gabriel Roth (a.k.a. Bosco Mann), the founders of Desco Records and then, separately, the Soul Fire (now defunct) and Daptone labels, all of which Fields has worked with.

“I was the first artist to do a full-length album with them [Let’s Get a Groove On, 1999]. Matter of fact, Sharon Jones was singing backup for me then!” Fields enthuses. “The people there, at Desco at the time and at Daptone now, it’s one big family. I’m pulling for everybody; it really makes me happy to see everyone take another step up. Whatever I can do for Sharon, trust me, I’ll be there, and I feel like she’ll do the same for me. Same thing for everybody there – it’s a family, man.”

More recently, Fields was one of the first artists to record with another label, Truth & Soul, which was launched by Jeff Silverman and former Dap-King Leon Michels. The result was My World, the bloody brilliant LP Lee Fields and The Expressions have been touring with since 2009. “I have such pleasure performing this album when I go out on stage. Ladies, My World, Honey Dove… I enjoy singing those songs so much!”

Just last month, Fields put out the album Treacherous, a somewhat unexpected but not unenjoyable detour into dance-pop. “That is a separate project that I did independently. Although I’m a little funk man, I’ve grown to appreciate other kinds of music as well,” he says. “But we’re coming back with some My World-style stuff soon. We’re in the studio; the album should be completed by the first of the year.”

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Narada Michael Walden (born April 23, 1952) is a musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

He began his career as a drummer, working primarily in the jazz fusion realm, appearing with John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter and Weather Report, and Allan Holdsworth. After being mentored by Quincy Jones, he transitioned into a role as a songwriter and producer, working in the 1980s and 1990s with numerous R&B acts such as Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Mariah Carey, as well as other singers across several genres. In 2020, he became the drummer for Journey, replacing Steve Smith. In 2021, he became one of two drummers in the band alongside the returning Deen Castronovo before leaving. He appears on the band’s album Freedom (2022), having co-produced and played on the album before his departure.

He was born in Plainwell, Michigan. He attended Western Michigan University for two years.

He played with rock bands in Miami after he graduated from college. He was a member of the ‘second incarnation’ of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, playing drums and providing vocals. Atlantic released his first album, Garden of Love Light, in 1977 with a single that reached the R&B chart. This was followed by I Cry I Smile and The Awakening. The latter album reached #15 on the R&B chart. His singles continued to be popular in R&B during the 1980s. These included a duet with Patti Austin and an appearance on the soundtrack for the movie Bright Lights, Big City.

He built his studio in 1985 and produced music for The Temptations, Stacy Lattisaw, Aretha Franklin, Angela Bofill, Lisa Fischer, Sister Sledge, Herbie Hancock, Patti Austin, Whitney Houston, Clarence Clemons, George Benson, Sheena Easton, Kenny G, Lionel Richie, Al Jarreau, and Mariah Carey.

He has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards, winning three: Best R&B Song for “Freeway of Love” (1985); Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (1987); and Album of the Year for The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album (1993).

He married former Catholic school teacher, Katie Mersereau (2013). The couple has two daughters and a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Mildred G. (Detweiler) Bechtel, 97, widow of Wilmer A. Bechtel, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 in Keystone Villa in Douglassville, where she resided since October.

Born in Telford, PA, on August 17, 1925, Millie was the daughter of the late Clayton L. Detweiler and Emma B. (Godshall) Detweiler. Mildred earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina and was previously employed at the former Kern Insurance Agency, Inc. Mildred and Wilmer were married on October 2, 1965 at Limerick Chapel by Dr. Rev. Clarence Didden. They resided in Lower Pottsgrove Township for thirteen years prior to relocating to Boca Raton, Florida in 1978. In 1981 they returned to Pennsylvania and resided in Douglassville.

Millie was a member of Exeter Bible Fellowship Church in Birdsboro, PA. She formerly taught Sunday School and Bible Club at Limerick Chapel in Limerick, PA. Millie was also a past member of The Auxiliary of the Gideons International for 35 years. Millie is survived by many nieces and nephews as well as extended family. In addition to her husband, Wilmer, Millie was predeceased by three brothers, two sisters, and one step brother.

Family and friends are invited to a visitation on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at Morrell Funeral Home, 124 W. Philadelphia Ave. Boyertown, PA 19512 from 12:30PM to 1:00PM. Internment will be at Fairview Cemetery in Boyertown at 1:30PM. A memorial service will be held on May 10, 2023 following the internment at 3:30PM at Exeter Bible Fellowship Church, 926 Philadelphia Terrace, Birdsboro, PA 19508. Officiant will be Pastor Bill Burton. (Please plan to not arrive at the church campus prior to 3PM to allow school students time to safely exit the campus) In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Exeter Bible Fellowship Church, 926 Philadelphia Terrace, Birdsboro, PA 19508, or The Gideons International, PO Box 13773, Reading, PA 19612.

#Bob Jones University #BJU Hall of Fame #2023 #Obituary #BJU Alumni Association #Class of 1949 #Mildred G. (Detweiler) Bechtel

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It's nomination day for: Who is the best companion to get intoxicated with?

All main TV companions (and some of the better known EU companions) automatically qualify and will be in the tournament, there is no need to nominate them (full list here). There are 8 slots up for grabs for nominated candidates, so the list below will go through a group stage to bring us down to that.

You can nominate anyone you like, they do not have to be a companion, and no additional rules spring to mind to add, except im instituting a 2 gerry anderson charater limit, which has already been reached, nothing against them or him, just keeping this about Doctor Who characters, and not different programmes that crossed over in comics

Nominees

The TARDIS

Andy Davidson

Madam Vastra

Gwen Cooper

Ianto Jones

Toshiko Sato

Owen Harper

Narvin

Irving Braxiatel

Bannakaffalatta

Sabalom Glitz

The Earl of Sandwich

D'eon

Sabbath Dei

Scarlette

Adrien Wall

Laura Tobin

V.M.McCrimmon

Eliza

Compassion

Jason Kane

Hebe Harrison

Valarie Lockwood

Missy

Koschei

Delgado!Master

McQueen!Master

Preacher!Master

Father Kreiner

Cousin Justine

Wolsey

Chris Cwej

God the Computer

Joseph (Oh No it Isn't)

Emile Mars-Smith

Elspeth (Where Angels Fear)

Clarence the Angel

John (Another Girl, Another Planet)

B-Aaron

Renée Thalia

Joseph (The Doomsday Manuscript)

Captain Magenta

Captain Black

Lola Denison

Tameka Vito

Erato

Kamelion

The Kandyman

C'rizz

Cesiare of Diplos

Vincent van Gogh

Pangol of Argolis

Deedrix of Tigella

Soldeed of Skonnos

King Yrcanos

The Three who Rule

Varsh

Keara

Tylos

Tremas of Traken

Panna

Karuna

Aris

Richard Mace

Sara Kingdom

Bret Vyon

Mark Seven

Mavic Chen

The Black Dalek Leader

The Original Golden Dalek Emperor

Stratum Seven Agent

Hallan

Pandora

Morbius

Jane Austen

Sam Bishop

Banana Boat

nominations will be open for at least the next 24 hours, that is until 11:45 GMT (UTC+0), 11/03

after that there is no guarantee

#umm right need to name this #intoxication: nominations #i guess

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