HeyJaredRobert L Arnold
Writer, songwriter, story teller, I write poems and songs and essays. I post them here and hope they find who they are supposed to find.
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On the Little Rock 9 (opens the original)
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Sixty-nine years ago today, nine children went to school.That sentence ought to be ordinary.There are mornings all across Arkansas when children drag themselves out of bed, miss the bus, forget their homework, complain about breakfast, and walk through the doors of a school thinking about everything except the significance of being allowed inside. There is something beautiful about that ordinariness. We should never forget how much blood and courage it took to make it possible.On September 25, 1
Economics classroom - Public Spending (opens the original)
What is Government For? (opens the original)
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Americans have developed a strange habit of talking about government as though it were something separate from us, some distant machine that appeared one morning with a clipboard, a tax form, and an unfortunate interest in parking regulations. Government spends, regulates, taxes, interferes, grows, shrinks, succeeds, fails, and occasionally manages to require three pieces of identification to prove something another branch of government already knows. The language itself places government somewh
On Ms Rachel & Macklemore (opens the original)
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There is something almost absurd about having to explain why Ms. Rachel has become controversial.She wears overalls. She sings about bubbles. She teaches toddlers how to say mama. She looks directly into a camera and speaks slowly because somewhere on the other side of the screen there is a two-year-old trying to make sense of language for the first time. She celebrates tiny victories adults barely notice. A word. A wave. A child finally learning how to tell the world what she needs.This is the
For The Southern Man part 2 (opens the original)
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I ended the last essay with “Stand the hell up.”And here I am, still trying to understand how the floor got so goddamn comfortable.Because the bootlicking is what I can’t get past. The eagerness of it. The way a person can announce that nobody tells him what to do, then spend the rest of the afternoon explaining why whatever Trump just said must be right.How the hell does that work?Where does the independence go? Is there a coat check? Some little booth at the entrance where you hand over your j
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