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Lyrics to Beyonce song "Freedom"

 




Just for nothin' I'm putting a famous image from Raphael's painting School of Athens, right here. 

But I am thinking as the headline here indicates of the song that has become the new anthem of the Kamala Harris campaign. 

As readers will probably recognize, I'm fully behind somebody-who-is-not-Trump for President. Harris is now that candidate and she is guaranteed my vote.

In that spirit, here are the lyrics to the anthem, Beyonce's "Freedom". 

Freedom! Freedom! I can't move

Freedom, cut me loose!

Singin', freedom! Freedom! Where are you?

Cause I need freedom too!

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It sounds like an evocation of the police-brutality cases and arguments that clustered in the Trump years, often involving the phrase "I can't breathe!" from a dying man, and the taunt that if you couldn't breathe you couldn't say that.

Yet people about to die apparently can say that.  And people being unjustly handcuffed and shackled can complain that they can't move.  Often the only good they can do for the cause of the simplest sort of freedom, freedom of movement, is to complain about it as it is being taken from them.

And if I am at all right in reading this, if those are the thoughts that are supposed to occur to me as I hear this song -- and the interpretation is rather strongly supported by the video for the song --  then it does seem an odd song for a candidate for President whose identity is closely tied to her being a former prosecutor.  

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  1. Paul D. Van PeltJuly 26, 2024 at 10:18 AM

    Agreed. Rorty,s little collection, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, comes to mind. Maybe we all need a bit of irony in order to be honest with ourselves?

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