Like a garden and a gardener, what blooms/flourishes in a nation reveals what it sows, tends, values and ultimately cherishes.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
THE RHETORIC/ART OF:
FEAR/HATE/VIOLENCE/DIVISIVENESS/THREATENING
MOVING BACKWARDS
VERSUS
CREATIVITY/EMPATHY/DIVERSITY/WELCOMING
MOVING FORWARD
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness,
only light can do that.”
X
“Hate cannot drive out hate,
only love can do that.”
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
THE TRUMP BRAND IS NOT THE CHARACTER
OF A LEADER
IN THE WORLD’S THEATRE.
GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric history
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/12/donald-trump-protesters-rhetoric-history-orig-vstan-dlewis.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Protesters wait before dawn, outside a church at Lenoir-Rhyne University before a March 14 rally
for Donald Trump in Hickory, North Carolina. | AP Photo
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
‘Humans of New York’ creator,
Brandon Stanton,
to Trump:
‘The hateful one is you’
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/politics/humans-of-new-york-creator-donald-trump-letter/index.html
Brandon StantonAn Open Letter To @realDonaldTrump
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
President Obama:
Campaign rhetoric is ‘vulgar and divisive’
Published on Mar 15, 2016
President Obama comments on the Donald Trump BRAND and the GOP at a Democratic fundraiser:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/12/obama-mocks-trump-steaks-wine.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE
X
X
X
X
HUMANITY SERIES: FRESHDRIEDBLOODIAMHUMAN Catherine L. Johnson 2013
X
X
X
X
X
X
WHAT IS CALLING OUT VIOLENCE/HATE/FEAR
IN THE HUMAN HEART?
https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/to-dream-the-impossible-dream-my-anthem-as-a-young-girl-can-violence-become-an-art-form-diddoes-picassos-guernica-1937-inspire-violence-can-you-hear-the-shrieks-did-the-silent-shriek/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
CAN THE VEHICLES
OF ART / AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
CALL OUT
“THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE”?
X
X
X
“HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION“
INSTINCT Art Gallery*
A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION + A TIMELY ORACLE.
X
X
(* On 12 March 2016, INSTINCT permanently closed its doors)
https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/review-humanly-possible-the-empathy-exhibition-instinct-art-gallery-the-path-to-empathy-by-mpls-star-tribune-art-critic-mary-abbe-published-new-year-s-day-2016/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
“HAMILTON”
ORIGINAL BROADWAY PLAY
by
Lin-Manuel Miranda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_%28musical%29
Miranda said that the portrayal of Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, and other Caucasian historical figures
by black and Hispanic actors should not require
any substantial suspension of belief by audience members
“Our cast looks like America looks now, and that’s certainly intentional,” he said.
“It’s a way of pulling you into the story and allowing you
to leave whatever cultural baggage you have about the founding fathers at the door.”
He noted “We’re telling the story of old, dead white men but we’re using actors of color,
and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.”
X
X
President Obama Welcomes the Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bNmhbvU2o
X
X
Hamilton cast performs “Alexander Hamilton” at White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrAKuOBWzw
X
X
‘Hamilton’ Cast Performs Hit Musical At White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBP81kqpydE
X
X
Hamilton cast performs “My Shot” at White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHKBckBcr4
X
X
Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam/ 2009
Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda
performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” at the White House Evening
of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009.
Accompanied by Alex Lacamoire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE
X
X
‘Hamilton’ creator freestyles with Obama at White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nImHqgraKus
X
X
X
X
John Coltrane – Peace on Earth – Live in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqyznfmsPuk
https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/peace-on-earth-john-coltrane-live-in-japan-1966-2508-japan-meditatations-catherine-l-johnson-2011/
http://www.johncoltrane.com/
X
X
Charles Lloyd – Lotus Blossom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBLuFOrAa_0
http://www.charleslloyd.com/
https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/charles-lloyd-mpls-snow-blizzard-to-charles-divine-fire-charles-sacred-sonics-with-the-collective-genius-of-bill-frisell-reuben-rogers-eric-harland-2-february-2016-the-dakota-aka-low/
https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/charles-lloyd-dorothy-darr-catherine-l-johnson-30-june-2015-lowell-picketts-living-room-aka-the-dakota/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
We, as citizens of the United States of America,
cannot be bystanders to
VIOLENCE/FEAR/HATE.
X
We share a moral obligation to our Constitution: ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL;
to the improvisational nature of America: A WORK IN PROGRESS;
a force of light,
not darkness and walls and division,
to the world’s theatre and roundtable;
and
we must be a template of practicing democracy, opening up vistas of humanity,
knowing OUR President is to dynamically represent
what we, as a nation, cherish.
X
Our President is not a BRAND or a reality show!
Our President needs the content of character of a mountain’s summit;
the sweet+ fierce light of dawn in deep despair;
the intellectual capacity to move/bend/push/pull
like the strong currents of the Mississippi River;
practice the clear sight of the vast blue sky;
to persevere/prevail like the pine tree in a tempest;
to listen to the songs of other nations- and hear what is unfamiliar;
the capacity/humility to negotiate, multi-spherically, with other nations;
to welcome innovation + foresight+ generate questions before answers;
possess the maturity/patience to wait in the turbulent seas of ambiguity in negotiation;
the courage and compassion to step up to social injustices of /for ALL;
to be a dignified and creative vehicle of humanity
and
to be “the better angels of our nature”.
Describe INTEGRITY.
X
CLJ
15 March 2016
The Ides of March
Charles Lloyd’s + my nephew Will’s birthday and the date when Caesar was betrayed.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Like a garden and a gardener, what blooms/flourishes in a nation reveals what it sows, tends, values and ultimately cherishes.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
Leave a Reply