There’s a meme that was making the rounds of Twitter:
“A Black
man and a Jew walk into a bar in Georgia. The bartender asks, 'What can I get
you, Senators?'”
So
today I’m leaving aside all the coup crap and giving the space to honor the
victory of Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, the two Democratic Senators
from a state that’s about as Deep South as you can get. Their election is a
testament to the changing demographics of our nation and to the amazing efforts
of the even more amazing Stacey Abrams.
The
song is, of course, “Marching through Georgia”. It was written in 1865 and
commemorates the sweep through the state by the army commanded by William Tecumseh
Sherman. (I thought about Cump Wednesday when “Elizabeth
from Knoxville” was interviewed crying into a towel because she’d been
maced by Capitol Police after she’d just stepped inside the building. “I was storming
the Capitol,” she shrieked. “It’s a revolution!” She clearly had not expected
war to be all hell.*)
(Okay, I lied when I said I was laying aside the coup.)
Here’s the Old Crow Medicine Show singing it. Crank up the volume for any right wing nut jobs in your vicinity. They’ll really appreciate it.
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