Lean On Me

FTLComm - Tisdale - Wednesday, January 21, 2004

The sky was cloudless Saturday (January 17) as the sun headed below the horizon. These pictures capture the end of the daylight and the graceful acceptance of the sun from the dark blue sky. When I considered what music would go best with these scenes I was attacked to an old favourite from the Motown era. Al Green is still performing and performing well as he appeared on the David Letterman show this week. Motown (music from Detroit's black community) dominated the music scene at the end of the 1960s mostly focused on the brilliant Marvin Gay who with his company promoted groups like the Supremes, The Commodores, Temptations, Gladys Knight and Pipps and individuals like Otis Reading. The music came as did human rights to Black America and with that era the involentary participation in the war in Southeast Asia where young black men from poor urban American were conscripted and many many died. Though large numbers of other Americans also served in the conflict individuals like the last two US presidents were able to avoid the jungle war. George W. Bush actually had some strings pulled and of the two years he was State side in the airforce he did not even go to the base he was assigned. Poverty has not gone away in the country South of us, nor has various forms of descrimination. Lean on me

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