Things are beginning to hit close to home. Chuck Redd is being sued by the Trump administration for a million dollars. He is a local jazz musician, strictly working class, who has done nothing but refuse a gig at the “Trump-Kennedy Center”. Chuck is a local guy, a long-standing pillar of the jazz community here. I spoke to him once, long ago, when I needed a drummer, but his fee was a little higher than I could afford at the time: $400.
I woke up this morning thinking about my philosopher friend, who moved to Canada. He wrote a year ago that he was concerned about visiting his grandchildren in the states because of the political situation. Now, if I were he, I would not dare to cross the border. He is an eminent Marxist philosopher in his 80’s - he could die in ICE custody, though a US citizen.