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Saturday, October 27, 2007
City Council Candidate Justin Jeffre to Host World Music Festival
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Tonight, at the Southgate House in Newport, singer, songwriter, and multi-platinum recording artist turned media activist, newspaper publisher, and Cincinnati politician—Justin Jeffre—will host the World Music Festival from 8pm-2am.
The Festival is designed to celebrate diversity through the language of music, and for Jeffre (a graduate of Cincinnati’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts), that is a message that rings true in both the artistic and political realms. “Celebrating our differences through art is a great way to develop a deeper understanding of the global marketplace of ideas.”
For Jeffre, artists can be great ambassadors for both Cincinnati and the region. He believes an investment in the artistic development of our young people can bring great rewards down the road. Events like the World Music Festival provide an important outlet for creative expression.
Concert tickets cost $12 at the door, and proceeds benefit Global Center of Greater Cincinnati.
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28 Oct 2007 at 08:00 am | #
It was a truly worthwhile event!
The culturally diverse entertainment on three stages simultaneously was awesome. My husband for obvious reasons liked the hip-gyrating, boob-shaking belly dancing more than I did, and we both thought the African dance/drum group was fantastic. We saw about 6 performances in all and thought it was a great night out, well worth the $12 ticket.
Justin, do your best to bring events like this to Cincinnati after you make it to council.
28 Oct 2007 at 10:08 am | #
When I was checking the festival’s web site, I didn’t see any mention of Justin but I did see many other groups listed as sponsors. Was Justin just the emcee?
I noticed you called Justin a politician. My dictionary defines the word as “a person who holds a political office.” What office does he hold?
28 Oct 2007 at 10:13 am | #
Thank you for using your dictionary. Your dictionary is likely a small dictionary that you can hold in one hand. Most dictionaries are like this—but one dictionary stands apart: the Oxford-English Dictionary. To see a printed version would be to see a stack of books nearly six feet tall.
With a public library card, you can access it through an online database.
If you do, you will find the following definition:
28 Oct 2007 at 11:36 am | #
You’re always quick to protect your boy, Dean. Justin isn’t a politician by any standard I’ve ever heard used. (Just because I’m interested in surgery doesn’t mean I am a doctor.)
28 Oct 2007 at 11:50 am | #
I have shown you that, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, Justin Jeffre (and any other candidate who has never held elected office, but is running for office) qualifies as a “politician.”
So are you arguing with the OED, the repository of the English language itself?
05 Nov 2007 at 05:37 pm | #
Being a politician has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not someone currently holds office. The very best policians never hold office. Lincoln Stephens comes to mind, and Willy Mays, Will Rogers and Ernie Pyle.
Politicians are most assuredly born, as was Bonaparte and Lenin, Fidel, Eisenhower and as was Putin and Truman.
Politicians can be readily contrasted with philosophers, who to the very last one, have all either stepped gracefully, as Twain, fallen hard, as Kant, or been ruthlessly beaten, as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, into their prone position in the gutter from whence they examine humanity and reflect for all of us upon the world they find around them.
Even so, any sane person seeking the truth would sooner shake hands with, or seek the advice of a philosopher a second time than any politician.
And while it might in fact be an awkward or unfortunate turn of events, in recent weeks to my own startled amazement I heard presidential candidate Mike Huckabee make a clear reference to The Moral Imperative of Life, citing for Charlie Rose in an interview the imperative and irrefutable nature of our obligatioon to the future, claiming it for his own thought trying to indicate a presidentially worthy demeanor. “Look what I stole!”
I expect this popularizing trend of making of their own, good contemporary philosophy, will continue as journalist David Brooks made a similar revelation of his own endorsement of the same idea for his viewing public not too long ago. I know journalists can and do read. I suspect someone of his staff brought The Moral Imperative of Life to the attention of Candidate Huckabee.
And while all of this might be some remarkable coincidence or even my wishfully reading what I am personally acquainted with into what I hear others saying, I know I’ll have at last reached to the very pinnacle of affecting the great seething and roiling mass that is our more glorious and more terrifying humanity, when I hear, or read, Justin Jeffre tell us all, We all have a moral obligation to the future that clearly outweighs any interest anyone alive today might have.
Done correctly, this is, like an Foreman uppercut, a Jordan slamdunk, or even a Bill Murray smile, one of those categorical trump cards from which there is no adequate retort or possible recovery in any otherwise not much more than trivially meaningless political debate as they all tend to be. We got GWB because the religious right was up in arms about gay marriage, remember?
I lived long enough to know, the Republican and Democrat presidential candidates in ‘08 will as in years past, again, be the two least inspiring and most offensive.
And right now it looks like a sure thing for Hillary and Rudy each of whom well more than a majority of the voting public seem to find equally despicable.
One of my sons is a great fan of Ron Paul who will doubtless be assassinated to prevent democracy from being any more or less meaningful than it has any potential to be.
Politicians are born that way, murderous and yet often quite craven too. I’m not so afraid of death that I don’t run for office.
I simply know, if anyone wants to give an effect to change humanity and the course of world events, they should write philosophy.
I’m currently the only person in the world, philosopher or otherwise, advocating a negative growth economic policy, one that will force a much smaller human footprint on the planet.
It’s a well thought out cogent view, and a view not one likely to be expropriated (or, snatched up) any time soon by these aspiring politicians who seem to universally claim they’ll put a chicken in every pot.
But the negative growth economic policy I’m advocating all by myself will certainly catch on. The human footprint is simply too big for the planet, and it’s getting bigger every day. It’s not a question of if, but when humanity begins to recognize our own faults.
Philosophy is the pinnacle of all knowledge. And I don’t write this shit for my health.
Don Robertson, The American Philosopher