Unreal to read about grooming gangs in UK that are all over the UK news these days. I found the interviews with Maggie Oliver particularly incredible, the woman who became a cop later in life when she was a forty-year old mother of four children. She resigned after realizing the police force had one hundred men ready to prosecute for systematic rapes, and were ordered not to proceed despite having all the details about the men, victim accounts, surveillance recordings, license plates, phone numbers. The children largely the most vulnerable in foster care. The case dropped under Kier Starmer’s leadership (the current PM of UK). The busted men were mostly from Pakistan and the police decided it could look racist if they proceeded. A good reason to not prosecute a rape gang?! Really? People who destroyed children? For Maggie Oliver the level of corruption and stupidity was too gross to continue and she quit. I like trying to create artwork with emotional knowledge. I wrote a song about Motown singer Tammi Terrell last year. It followed few weeks where I was under the spell of listening to her. I also read about the abusive relationships she had with both boyfriends James Brown and David Ruffin. She was beaten up. Pathetic and disturbing especially because I also loved Ruffin and Brown’s music and then at 25 she died of a brain tumor. I wrote a song about them all, and even a verse about Michael Jackson paying at Ruffin’s funeral. It looked to me as though he saw Ruffin as a mentor. “I Want You Back” was originally a song Motown organized for Ruffin’s solo career but shelved it so the Jackson Five could try it. We all know they are associated with the hit. From all the modern productions I find myself studying via my teaching positions, I started to improvise different ways of recording this song. I thought of adding different voices instead of me and asked a young singer from the open stage to try it. She was excited at first, we had one rehearsal but a week later called to tell me she wasn’t comfortable anymore because the people I am singing about are black and she is white. She said it wouldn’t be right given the historical legacy of slavery to say something critical about those men who beat that woman up. I found it so amazing that this was the summit of the intellectual mountain where she planted her flag. My song said nothing about anyone’s skin colour but it did say something about famous men who beat up women. If anything it was a tribute to remember the greatness of Tammi Tyrell. The whole exchange made me think she gets victimized all over again. Gad Saad got it right when he wrote the parasitic mind.