Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam download song

This took some balls. Good for Nina.

"All I want is equality for my sister, my brother, my people, and me." This is brilliant, universal, and timeless.

She had the nerve, it had to be said and so she did say it.

I just turned 40....the most wonderful line to me is, "they keep on saying Go Slow..." because supposedly "culture" moves at its own pace, and people still argue that Integration should not have happened by "Court Order", and should have just happened "naturally", according to how culture worked. But WHO is being served by the natural cycles of culture? There are times when even if you're the person who doesn't want it, you just gotta be PUSHED FORWARD. Because culture isn't JUST about what comes tomorrow, it's about those who are alive HERE and NOW!

Nina would be so disappointed in us. Brilliant woman.

4:14 is the punkest thing I've ever seen

"You don't have to live next to me just give me equality" Damn, I would have loved to have been your neighbor if you would have let me.

This song was written in response to the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL...which had killed four young Black girls, who'd just finished a Bible study session. It's rumored to have taken Nina Simone between 20 minutes to an hour to write 'Mississippi Goddam'. I love watching her body language and facial expressions...you could tell she was just fed up with it all. And I don't blame her for hurrying up to get off that stage. You know that white audience was mad.

Broke my heart hearing her sing, “My country is full of lies...” She was born & raised in America, a land where her talent was liked a lot, but a land of people who hated her skin color...sad

Finest, angriest tune ever!

Sister Nina Simone performed this back when Wallace and racism was alive and thriving. She spoke thru her lyrics and she performed it just as strong as the protests at that time. Rest In Peace, "never misunderstood"

Astoundingly good. It's hard to imagine that bravery and character it took to deliver this song so powerfully in 1965.

Powerful woman, pissed off. The song was banned in several southern states (they claimed the ban was b/c of the word "goddam" lol) during the Civil Rights Era. Unfortunately after this weekend it's still depressingly relevant. Charlottesville Goddam!

To understand the total sh*t that was happening , study the year 1965. Simone was brave, stood up against the evils of her day...which, sadly, are something we have to fight against all over again. God Bless Nina Simone.