Putin withdraws from Ukraine, apologizes, and vows never to do anything mean again, all because of one simple nudge, one loving poem, from a brave Hollywood actress unafraid to speak truth to power
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Allah Pundit: We laugh now, but we’re all going to feel terrible for making fun of her when McCord wins the Nobel Peace Prize for talking Putin into withdrawing.
NPR once asked, “when did Kumbaya become such a bad thing?”, and neither AnnaLynne nor I have an answer, especially when the song is performed so beautifully by the editors of NPR themselves.
UPDATE 2/26/22: The lyrics of Miss Annalynne’s poem (sic) have been posted :
“I’m so sorry that I was not your mother,” McCord recites. “If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light. Never with this story’s plight, the world unfurled before our eyes a pure demise of nation’s sitting peaceful under a night sky.
“If I was your mother, the world would have been warm. So much laughter and joy and nothing would harm. I can’t imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy you must have seen and believed and the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel, unjust world,” she continued. “Is this why you now decide no one will get the best of you? Is this why you do not hide nor away shy from taking back the world?”
