Lagrimas Negras, Cuba Feliz (Black Tears)

 

I just enjoy watching and listening to this impromptu Cuban jam session. Flavored with all the spices and ingredients found in a Cuban Barrio. As for the song itself, it speaks of one who cries and suffers over their loss of love. And yet even though love has abandoned thee, I will go on loving even if it costs me dying. Although the English translation might not relay the song's poetry, the video's festive faces and celebratory music is unmistakable. For as with love, we can do nothing but celebrate it, with all its ups and downs.

Viva La Cuba!

Black Tears
(a © translation of “Lágrimas Negras”)

Although you
have left me desolate with your abandon,
although you
have been death to my every illusion
instead of cursing you now
with justified rancor,
in my dreams I enshrine you,
in my dreams I enshrine you
with benediction.
(2X)

Immensity of pain I suffer over losing you,
my feelings so profoundly hurt
torn by your parting.
I cry without your knowing
and that lonely crying
weeps out a stream of black tears,
weeps out a stream of black tears
and all my living.
(1X)

You want leaving me
I can’t suffering be
so with you I go my darling
even it costs me dying.
(3X with 2 short breaks)

[It is impossible for me to match the poetry of the Spanish original in an English translation. Let me know if you perform “Black Tears” successfully.]

Lágrimas Negras — Español-English | manuelgarciajr

"No-one Has The Right To OBey!" - Hannah Arendt

 

"No One has the Right to Obey"

As of this morning, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey continues to hold the U.S. Senate floor, exposing what the Trump Administration has been doing to the country. His finger points blame primarily at the president and his hired non-government representative Elon Musk for their cutting and dismantling of vital services like Social Security. Senator booker is calling out republican colleagues, inviting them to "act according to one's conscience, when faced with orders when they are unjust."

While watching Senator Booker "yielding to questions while retaining the floor," I was encouraged to pose my own question for the senator to ask his Republican colleagues:

How can U.S. Senators and Congressmen continue to carry out Trumpian orders that hurt American citizens and go against the U.S. Constitution? Did not all legislators swear an oath to "Uphold the Constitution" and serve all Americans? Remember, "I do solemnly swear . . ."

The late political theorist and author Hanna Arendt in response to WWII Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichman, while he was on trial for crimes against humanity invoking the so-called Nuremberg Defense (I was only following orders), said this:

"No one has the right to obey"

meaning - subordination doesn't justify abdication of responsibility

emphasis - resisting unjust orders, rather than following them blindly

So, how is it so many of our well-meaning American representatives, voted into office by trusting American citizens, are turning their backs on civic duty while obeying unconstitutional and un-American presidential orders? Lord have mercy, that someday after this presidential crisis has passed, these representatives will cowardly invoke the Nuremberg Defense to avoid accountability and punishment as accomplices in their dereliction of duty while serving.

This American would like to hear Senator Cory Booker pose Hannah Arendt's comment in the context of a question to Trumpian Republican legislators:

Do you Senator or Congressman -fill in the blank- believe you have the right to obey orders knowing they will bring down long-standing American Institutions and hurt American Citizens and Families?

'I was only doing my job'. No-one has the right to obey | Cambridge Network

RaiderLegend: Hannah Arendt - Author of "The Origins of Totalitarianism

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