This speech from three years ago seems perfectly suited to this horrific historical moment.
It is based, for those who are not familiar, on the opening of Charles Dicken;s Novel “A Tale of Two Cities”
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
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Two generations removed from chattel slavery, Black USA citizens created a musical form, often called Jazz, which ended up as a pole of attraction worldwide. It was and is a stellar hybrid of African derived rhythmic momentum and European harmonic conceptions. It is at its best a profoundly democratic undertaking, a dialectical combination of individual voices within a group.
It has been seemingly crushed through neglect but always emerges Phoenix like triumphant.
There are lessons to be learned.
I think this video sums it up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY