For the Fourth of July, we asked a few of our contributors to wrap a couple hundred words around a specific piece of popular culture that they felt best defined the day. That series will run throughout today, so in-between barbecues, parades, horseshoes and fireworks, be sure to come on back for a look. My pick was easy, and I have to admit I worried someone else would choose it. But I also have to admit that I don’t have a few hundred words for this one:
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There’s simply no way to adequately express what it means to hear Ray Charles sing “America the Beautiful.” And in this clip Brother Ray did so in 1971 at the height of the anti-war movement on what was then the “hippest” show on television.
Talk about subversive.
God bless The United States of America.
God bless The Genius of Soul.
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