One : The Life And Music Of James Brown (9781101561102) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
The sui generis celebration of an “us” in “Say It Loud” was replaced with a bracing expression of one man’s rights. If you want your rights, repeat after Brown: “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself).” Give him an even playing field and he can take it from there. Nixon had campaigned on a domestic policy he called “New Federalism.” The idea was to transfer power, money, and responsibility from Washington to states and individuals. He knew how to undermine his predecessor’s Great Society and make an evisceration look like a fresh start. Heck, Nixon had enough poetry in his soul to spot the possibilities in a phrase like “black power.” There he was, giving a speech on CBS, teasing the possibilities out: “Much of the black militant talk these days is actually in terms far closer to the doctrines of free enterprise than to those of the welfarist ’30s—terms of pride, ownership, private enterprise, capital—the same qualities, the same characteristics, the same ideals, the same methods that for two centuries have been at the heart of American success.”
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