![]() Tyson also questioned why El Maat waited so long to come forward. If a worldview that wouldn’t hold up to a scientific test rendered the believer unreliable in a court of law, most Americans could not take the stand. Somewhere between 50% and 80% of Americans believe in angels, and 18% believe the sun revolves around the earth. Many Americans, when pressed, believe something you’d probably consider irrational. He is falling back on the most time-tested way that men discount women’s allegations against them: making her sound crazy. Tyson’s comment that “as a scientist, I found this odd” is a transparent attempt to discredit El Maat by implying that she’s unreliable. This detail is not significant it’s irrelevant. To him, “what was most significant” is that years later, when he checked her website, “she was posting videos of colored tuning forks endowed with vibrational therapeutic energy that she channels from the orbiting planets.” Tyson’s response to El Maat’s accusation is, again, problematic. ![]() She said she was blacked out much of the night.” El Maat dropped out of the program shortly after and cited the alleged rape as her reason. She said that when he saw she had awakened, he started having sex with her, and she passed out again. “When she came to, she said, she was naked on his bed. Tyson giving her a drink of water, and that she then blacked out,” the New York Times reported. The most disturbing allegation came from Tchiya Amet El Maat, an African American woman who accused Tyson of drugging and raping her while they were graduate students. Allers felt sufficiently uncomfortable that, years later, she declined an invitation to a university dinner because she did not want to cross paths with Tyson. ![]() Tyson doesn’t seem to get that you don’t lift any part of the dress of a woman you just met at a party, especially a professional function. “He looked for Pluto, and followed the tattoo into my dress,” she said, calling the move “uncomfortable and creepy.” Again Tyson corroborated, but in his version, “this was simply a search under the covered part of her shoulder of the sleeveless dress.” Allers has an elaborate tattoo of the solar system running up her arm. Allers, a colleague that Tyson met at a party thrown by the American Astronomical Society. Watson quit the next day, citing the incident as her reason.Īnother allegation came from Katelyn N. Some tracks ("Natural Women") can stand alone as instrumentals.In a Facebook post, Tyson corroborated her story, explaining, “on a few occasions, I clumsily declared, ‘If I hug you I might just want more.’” He wrote that his intent was “to express restrained but genuine affection.” But the words “I want more” don’t express affection they express sexual attraction. Some may find the dread lyrics a bit preachy, but Rise Again Truth is - musically and lyrically - head and shoulders above lovey-dovey pop reggae. Edwin Livingston's donates killer basswork throughout, but shines on "Reservation Ragtime Blues" and "Rastafari Is Universal," a tune in which Amet alludes - like Dizzy Gillespie's brilliant "Kush" - to the great African kingdom that gave rise to the Pharaohs. On opener "Natural Life," Amet's voice evokes the glassy phrasing of Sade, but with more straight-ahead conviction. Likewise, a Native American Mallard flute flows through the Cherokee song "Tsalagi Thankful," with the outcome being a far cry from New Age thanks to drop riddem beats and dub breaks. On the propelling "Lakota: 4 Directions" for example, Amet mixes Rastafari theology with indigenous mythology, the music evoking a hypothetical blend of Finnish sensation Värttinä vocal harmonies, Burning Spear's saxophone, and Aston "Family Man" Barrett bass grooves. Still, two things distinguish Rise Again Truth from other lyrically intense reggae: jazzy arrangements and the incorporation of Native American tradition. Local singer/keyboardist Amet and handpicked area musicians supply the intricate and airy musical red carpet for this Soul Sista's reasonings on living a natural, Ital life. Tchiya Amet Rise Again Truth (Milky Way)Ĝrucial reggae ain't dead, not if Tchiya Amet's even-tempoed debut Rise Again Truth is any indication.
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