GOP Candidate Wants to Take the Vote Away from Nursing Home Residents & Dwayne Johnson's Contradicting Comments
AZ's Near Total Ban on Abortion Angers Kari Lake, Two Republican Dirty Tricksters Used Robocalls to Stop Blacks from Voting, Librarians Face Jail, Bonnie Tyler Sings "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
What I’m Discussing Today:
Kareem’s Daily Quote: What do a Greek politician and Rosa Parks have in common? A keen sense of what legacy is really about.
Arizona reinstated a 160-year-old abortion ban: The guys who passed it in 1864 also established that ten was the age of consent for girls to have sex. Discuss.
Trump’s Pick for Wisconsin Senator Suggests Nursing Home Residents Shouldn’t Vote: Apparently, he doesn’t think they’re going to live long enough to deserve to have a say in things.
Operatives must pay up to $1.25 million for robocall scheme to suppress Black votes: These two have been attempting to subvert elections across the country. Why aren’t they in prison?
Dwayne Johnson regrets endorsing Joe Biden in 2020, says cancel culture 'really bugs' him: 'Tears me up': I love Johnson as an entertainer, but not too thrilled about these disingenuous and contradictory statements.
Kareem’s Video Break: Looking for love in all the right places.
Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books: Do you want to live in a society that jails librarians for providing books that some politicians don’t like?
Bonnie Tyler Sings “Total Eclipse of the Heart”: One of the best power ballads ever recorded. Go ahead and sing along. You know you want to.
Kareem’s Daily Quote
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles (495-429 BCE)
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Almost 2,500 years separated the Greek politician Pericles and the American activist Rosa Parks, but they had the same basic idea. A person’s legacy is most profoundly imprinted on society and in history, not by the accumulation of wealth and power, but by the personal impact they’ve had on individuals. A small kindness can reverberate through the centuries as those who observed the act or benefited from it duplicate it for others. The unprompted generosity others have expressed towards me without expecting anything in return has left an indelible memory more vivid than any championship game I’ve played.
When I see the arrogance of wealthy individuals who think that their vast companies, their names on anything and everything, and the huddled toadies who lavish unearned praise will earn them an immortal legacy, I think of Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” in which a traveler describes the giant statue of two legs he discovered in the desert with the engraving: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;/Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” That is their legacy: Two stumps in an endless desert and a name that no one remembers with love.
I don’t care if anyone remembers my name or my accomplishments or my jersey number, only that I did small things that gave others fond memories that they could recall when they needed. And maybe made them want to do the same for others.