She has conducted Menstrual Health sessions in multiple government schools adopted by Rotary District 3240 as part of their WinS project in rural Bengal. We have a long way to fight in order to make sure that not another Trayvon Martin (February 2012), Michael Brown, Erin Garner (2014), or the most recent, George Floyd (2020) experience what can only be best defined as a Blackbird with broken wings.Īn ambassador and trained facilitator under Eco Femme (a social enterprise working towards menstrual health in south India), Sanjina is also an active member of the MHM Collective- India and Menstrual Health Alliance- India. The movement that advocated to defund the police and invest directly into black communities and alternative emergency response models, should not stop there in itself.
It’s the outcry, the continuum of defensive reciprocity that matters. The band deliberately introduces bird sounds instead of any additional instrument towards the end of the number, signifying its the voices that matter. The lyrics metaphorically signify that even if you’re not free, if you live in darkness, if your wings are broken and your eyes sunken, you should always try to arise, fly and follow the light that even in the darkest night shines. Paul McCartney with the two members of Little Rock Nine- Thelma Mothershed Wair and Elizabeth Eckford The words, undoubtedly, do draw significant inspiration from the Little Rock Nine: a group of nine black students who faced discrimination and the lasting impact of segregation after enrolling in the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, following the Supreme Court’s historic Brown vs. This lexical jugglery, combined with the events of the 1960s seems to refer to Rosa Parks, a black woman who while riding the bus, had refused to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger after the white section was filled. The word “bird” here is also a British slang used for “girl” which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.
You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. Both the melody and the lyrics have the specific inspiration behind them. Shortly after returning from India where he was learning the art of Transcendental Meditation with the other Beatles, Paul McCartney wrote “Blackbird” while at High Park Farm in Kintyre, Scotland in April of 1968. A song inspired by the racial tensions that exploded in the US in spring 1968 as a symbolic way to support the civil rights movement. The station that gifted us one of the most powerful compositions, “Blackbird”. This very incident did instigate the zeal in me to rewind the engine and halt at the 60’s station. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in the protests held at the heart of the United States, making it one of the largest movements in U.S.
However, just like the very many by-gone incidents of racial discrimination, this movement somewhere took a back seat. To be precise, it wasn’t solely the United States that raised voice but citizens from all over the world took to unabashedly disconcert the in-human (yet committed by a human) crime.
The following day witnessed the return of the decentralized movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience that had originated in July 2013, named, BLACK LIVES MATTER. The 25 th of July, this year, gave us all an incredulous gasp when we had to painfully witness the terribly unsettling picture of Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African-American, for nearly eight minutes, while the other three officers looked on.
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