Exodus

I'm continuing to listen to/read the remarkable book Between the World and Me. It's such brilliant writing. Such a good prompt for reexamining one's beliefs. I just found out that I'm going to be teaching the Politics of Education in the Fall and I am thinking I will have my students read it, for what is politics but the relationship of the individual and the whole?

In the letter I was reading today, Ta'Nehisi Coates' talks about this song as being the soundtrack to his just-after-college time:

Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!

Men and people will fight ya down (Tell me why!)
When ya see Jah light. (Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you if you're not wrong; (Then, why?)
Everything is all right.
So we gonna walk - all right! - through de roads of creation:
We the generation (Tell me why!)
(Trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulation.

Exodus, all right! Movement of Jah people!
Oh, yeah! O-oo, yeah! All right!
Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh, yeah!

Yeah-yeah-yeah, well!
Uh! Open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied (with the life you're living)? Uh!
We know where we're going, uh!
We know where we're from.
We're leaving Babylon,
We're going to our Father land.

2, 3, 4: Exodus: movement of Jah people! Oh, yeah!
(Movement of Jah people!) Send us another brother Moses!
(Movement of Jah people!) From across the Red Sea!
(Movement of Jah people!) Send us another brother Moses!
(Movement of Jah people!) From across the Red Sea!
Movement of Jah people!

I wish I'd known the power of Bob Marley while he was still on this Earth. We could use his healing vibes in this country right about now...