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She reflects on her personal stance toward the civil rights struggles in the American South.
The interview is from 1999.
@Africanarchives
Apr 15, 2026 5:19 PM
unwaver
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She reflects on her personal stance toward the civil rights struggles in the American South.
The interview is from 1999.
@Africanarchives
BellsTheorem
And she would have had a valid reason.
Bundalicious
American children have more courage than the fucking adults. Give them guns so they can take the country back.
Lisossoma
I absolutely adore Nina Simone and listen to her almost daily, but she suffered from a basically untreated bipolar discordar, with several bouts of mania along the way. She would have been a killer but she wouldn´t have lived much and not made the difference she ended up making.
shanasphone350
She was truly gifted. Her voice is moving to the soul.
DonL9
If you don't have Nina Simone in your music collection, your music collection won't be complete.
GravyEducation
Sinner woman, where you gonna run to? All along that day
thedudeman519
The lord said, go to the devil
ratfvcker95
So I cried, "Power, power
Power, power, power
Power, power, power"
azazyel
If you don't know her work check out "Sinnerman" or "Wild Is The Wind" (Bowie did a great cover of the song) Just a couple of my favs
SchrodingersDictator
Gonna check this later
Lisossoma
My favourite is probably “Don´t smoke in bed”, which she wrote about her divorce and were she tells her story of how she left her husband. And also “just in time” from the Montreux festival 1968. Today I was listening to it in the car and singing, and when she sings: “Now you ´re here, and I know just where I am going, no more doubt no more fear, I ´ve found my way”, it is just the most joyful representation of the strength and purpose of a love that is your fate.
Frustaz
I was at a concert of hers, front row, she told everyone to clap along with her, but I was a bit too slow and she came right up to me and looked me in the eye and said "CLAP DAMN IT!
I clapped.
TsubakiTragic
She did some great music.
theyallwenttoMexico
Born 02/21/33 · Tryon, North Carolina, USA Died 04/21/03 · France (breast cancer)
Birth name Eunice Kathleen Waymon
letmenumberthatforyou
Thank you so much.
theyallwenttoMexico
😊👍
kurvarVillain
This subtitle method sucks. Just put the like down. Don't force me to read at a set pace. Ffs
garbuhj
These are the worst subtitles I've ever seen
garbuhj
Subtitles always get to a point where you think "this is as bad as subtitles can get", but then somehow someone always finds a way to make them worse
enkrypt3d
maybe finish chewing and then we'd be interested in wtf u have to say.... gtfoh that's nasty
spinbutton3
Thank you for posting. Nina Simone was such a fantastic badass. Amazing talent and she knew what was right and what was wrong.
CapttainKillJoy
“But but but, she should have the right to own a gun and kill anybody she wants!”- idiots in the USA
johnxbear
Literally no one thinjs that
CapttainKillJoy
spittinfacts
Perhaps concentrate more on the sentiments of the many over the few.
BellsTheorem
This ^ The ruling Epstein class loves it when both sides of an issue argue over the sentiments of the 1% fringe.
ICanStopScrollingAnyTime
The reason the civil rights movement was such a great (still relative) success is because of non-violence. A war is what the racists dreamed of.
killergrooves85
This isn’t true at all. It was incredibly violent. It was the pictures of murdered innocent people in the Jim Crow South that repulsed the rest of America to the point that the demands for equal rights became overwhelming.
Even MLK started to think that nonviolence wasn’t doing enough, that white liberals couldn’t be trusted, and that advocating for black people to stop all labor was a more appropriate response. And then he was assassinated. You should look into his final days and speeches.
GravyEducation
Satyagraha
FiftyShadesOfTiramisu
It wasn't non-violence so much as one-sided violence. Brutal police beatings of peaceful demonstrators, violent abuse of sit-in protesters by white patrons etc. The ugly reality of segregation, discrimination and racist hatred on full display. Plus the threat of what might happen if peaceful protests failed to achieve results. I almost wrote "unspoken threat", but that wouldn't be true. Malcom X did speak it out loud. That had an effect too.
SinStar87
Crazy what it takes to motivate the people to decent action and how quickly they turn if those protestors stop accepting the beatings and defend themselves.
Sebastopol140
Mississippi Goddam! (still relevant, and not just for Mississippi.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM
Mahabazu
From a musical, but "the show hasn't been written for it yet."
witheredspoon
captainsweatypants
Don’t forget the classic Lauryn Hill lyric: “So while you imitating Al Capone
I'll be Nina Simone and defecating on your microphone”
kenultimate
“Ready or not”