Song 486: Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's holiday melody Ready for Christmas comes courtesy of my former Berkeley housemate Carol Denney, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. While it might seem a bit early for a tune about 12/25, if you've visited a shopping plaza in the last week or two, you might have noticed signs of stores already gearing up for the noel celebration, which will officially begin a week from Friday. Of course, Carol's piece here is not about festivities, but about heartless treatment of poor homeless people who struggle to survive. As bad as this story may have been in real life back in 2003 when Carol released her CD The Cruel Lullaby on which it appears, homelessness in CA has gotten severely worse over the last decade and a half. Observing how This town gets ready for Christmas by sweeping the streets of the poor, Carol, in addition to writing and recording a song to draw attention to this persecution, used her artistic talent to sketch some of the sad scenes she sang about, and those original works of art appear in the YouTube video of her track. Truly, Jesus would think it was something how people don't care any more if he saw how some who claim to follow his teachings do openly advocate for cruelty towards those he urged his believers to help.
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