I;m just your basic x-running back/sprinter, current dancer/antique blues fan. A guy who can totally school you blacks on the part you played in all that. A guy who has read more James Baldwin/Richard Wright/Langston Hughes/W.E.B Dubois/Ralph Ellison/Elijah Muhammad/Elridge Cleaver than any black dude. A guy who can rattle off the first black to...
win an Olympic medal,
win an Oscar
be called...The Worlds Fastest Human
QB to start an NFL game
win the Heisman
QB to win a Superbowl
perform on the Grand Old Opry
record a record
publish a book
play football in the old Southwestern Conference
gain a 1000 yards rushing in the NFL
gain a 1000 yards receiving in the NFL
gain a 1000 yards rushing in the AFL
gain a 1000 yards receiving in the AFL
I could teach a class to blacks about their history starting from the very beginning up to the freaks like you and all that music.
When it came to music I'd take you cats back to your origins, back to Mamie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Crows, The Drifters, Wilson Pickett, The Temptations...etc etc etc ....all the way up to Usher, Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne.
I know you won't even watch this and if ya do you won't get it, you lack depth. All you know is what ya hear on the radio which is sad. You don't know the origins of anything, who influensed who, yep, a simple little cherry boy.
Learn a few things little man, ok?
See the guy on the left, that's Gus Cannon a guy who was born in the 1880's, his parents were slaves.

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