Synchronicity Rears Its Sometimes Ugly Head September 21 in Brownsville

September 21, 2017 was a fateful day in Brownsville, filled with all kinds of synchronicity, irony and racial apology.

State Representative Eddie Lucio III, in a ceremony at Texas Southmost College, honored "colored" troops stationed at Fort Brown.(Of course, racial hatred created an incident in 1906 where 167 "colored" soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment, were falsely accused of killing a white bartender and a white police officer, costing them pensions and preventing them from ever serving in civil service jobs. The case aroused national outrage in both black and white communities.)

On this same day, September 21, 2017, City Commissioner Cesar de Leon "apologized" for calling two black men hired by the District Attorney's office "fucking niggers" in a story reported in the Brownsville Herald.

While we're in the synchronicity mode, let's consider the song "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire, recorded in 1978.  Incredibly, the song is about September 21:

"September"

by

EARTH, WIND AND FIRE

Do you remember the

21st night of September?

Love was changing the minds of pretenders

While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing

In the key that our souls were singing.

As we danced in the night,

Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu

Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu

Ba duda, badu, ba duda

My thoughts are with you

Holding hands with your heart to see you

Only blue talk and love,

Remember how we knew love was here to stay

Now December found the love we shared in September.

Only blue talk and love,

Remember the true love we share today

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

There was a

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

The bell was ringing, aha

Our souls were singing

Do you remember

Never a cloudy day

There was a

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

There was a

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

Ba de ya de ya de ya

Ba de ya de ya de ya

ba de ya de ya de ya

De ya

Ba de ya de ya de ya

Ba de ya de ya de ya

ba de ya de ya de ya

Yes, friends, synchronicity!

"Do you remember the

21st night of September?

Love was changing the minds of pretenders

While chasing the clouds away"