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Worth Saving, Part I

I just heard the strings of a piece crafted by Mozart long ago, played by orchestra in Berlin, easily lost myself within, in never fails to make me grin, such a sublime grace all should know. But then some talking heads came out, called Mozart just a ‘dead white male,’ declared his music so racist, only liked by supremacists, that we’ve a duty to ‘resist,’ that Europe is nothing but failed. They focus on mistakes long past, say that is all you ever were, think you should just lay down and die, be ashamed of the tint of your hide, let pretty much anything fly, even things that truly disturb. As if only Europe conquered, ever made that old mistake, forgetting that that Japanese, and also the Muslim states seized, Inca and Aztec took freely, it’s an error all peoples make. As if only Europe did judge people by how they appeared, it’s an all common state, done by the mid-east to this day, ask China their thoughts about race, it will always be with us, I fear. But they forget to see the good when the pros and cons they weigh, never mention a Coleridge rhyme, or a grand, French diner divine, cathedrals that echo through time, I think those things should have their say... CONCLUDES IN PART II.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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