Black History Month

[Sir Johnny]

First song by an African American

"The Whistling Coon"




One of our great stories is black. The slave trade which gave us HBCU schools, them blues, jazz, Motown, rap, hip hop, funk, R&B, soul,reggae EBONY, BET.

I have a small library on the black in America, all the classics are there by all the great black authors, but nothing compares to Julius Lesters "To Be A Slave" he has found letters written by the slaves (yes many could write) it will yank your heart out, those poor poor people. And Jimmy The Greek nailed it, it was just like he said it was.

The first great black athletes here in America were jockies, with Isaac Murphy being Da Man, jockies and plantation fighters, Tom Molineaux the most famous of those. He actually gained his freedom and fought in Europe for the World le.

When it comes to recorded music you will start in the 20's with blues and jazz, names like Bessie Smith, Papa Charley Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Obviously if blacks had played pro football from day one everything would have been totally different. And guys like Big Ben Stevenson who played eight seasons at Tuskeggee would be right there with Marion Motley.

Imagine if the blacks had never left Africa, think about that. No LeBron, no Muhammad Ali, no rap, no Bloods vs Crips, no Ray Charles, no Miles Davis or Jim Brown.

I once said.......slavery was a blessing in disquise.....and I think it really was. YES YES YES...it was terrible, horrendous it's self but where would Samuel L.Jackson, Wesley Snipes, Nina Simone, The Temptations be stuck in Ghana, Namibia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria?

Another great read about black life in America.....When Harlem Was In Vogue....Google it.

Some black firsts.

Oscar....Hattie McDaneil Gone With The Wind
NFL QB....Willie Thrower .....................................dead serious, ha~~~~
World Champion boxer...George "Little Chocolate" Dixon.....story goes he was fighting two/three times a days had over 800 bouts.

And here he is.





The first WORLDS FASTEST HUMAN....Howard Drew USC sprinter.

First great black pro RB....Buddy Young out of Illinois, all 5-4 170 of him.





I do wish the south had stayed true to their predjudices and now had to suffer as all their sports teams totally sucked trying to use SLOW white guys. Serve those pricks right, ing assholes.

[Sir Johnny]

The classic.....Strange Fruit



Can't talk black history without this story, if it hadn't been true it would have been made up.



What gets lost in the story is the Eulace Pea story. Pea owned Jesse in the 100m, actually beat him five races in a row, and even beat him in his best event, the long jump. But.............due to injuries couldn't compete in Berlin.

How cool would this be...

Hitler fumming over watching another race won by a black American
Me.....just think chief, we got one back home faster than he is.

In that 200m the guy who won silver was Mack Robinson the older bro of baseballer Jackie Robinson who was a stud long jumper himself.

Totally lost to Joe Public, that's a shame.


Ben Stevenson

Ben “Big Ben” Stevenson spent his first years at Tuskegee University as a prep-schooler, which at the time allowed him to play eight seasons in all for the Golden Tigers, from 1923 to 1930. During that span, the team amazingly suffered only two defeats. Stevenson combined speed (9.8 100-yard dash), strength and durability. Scoring on a combination of long runs and drop kicks, he also played defensive back, earning a reputation as one of the top pass thieves in the conference. Stevenson was named to seven consecutive Black College All-America teams, numerous Negro all-time All-America teams and was voted as the game's greatest all-around player.

The 100 yard world record was 9.5 in his day.

Notable NFLers out of the HBCU

Jerry Rice
Walter Payton
Steve McNair
John Stallworth
Mel Blount
Deacon Jones
Charlie Joiner
Leroy Kelly
Buck Buchanon
Willie Brown
Michael Strahan
Shannon Sharpe
Willie Davis
Bob Hayes
Willie Galimore
Doug Williams
Otis Taylor
Clem Daneils
Harold Jackson
Willie Ellison
Tank Younger
Tariq Cohen
Emerson Boozer
J.D.Smith
Sammie White
Essex Johnson
Ken Burrough

This ain't Nashville.

[Thanos]

[Sir Johnny]

I guess we could get by with 10.2 white sprinters, big power backs or little quick guys like Edelman in track and football. A slow white guy vs a slow white guy, hmmmm?

But we can't go without the music.

If I don't get this fix at least every couple days I'd have a real hard time making it.




No sissyass like Queen will work.

[Sir Johnny]

We have a lot of Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, what if they all left today? What would we miss?

[benefactor]

Just how many times have you let your black buddy Stan smash Judy, Larry? Dozen...two dozen times?

[Millennial_Messiah]

We have a lot of Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, what if they all left today? What would we miss?

Food (both)
STEM smarts (the first one)
Crime (the second one)

[BD24]

Your daughter is the type of fat white trash that black guys like to smash tbh.

[Mitch]

Those old boxing matches were brutal, they'd just duke it out relentlessly. Wish we had some footage of bare knuckle of the late 1700s and early 1800s

[Millennial_Messiah]

Your daughter is the type of fat white trash that black guys like to smash tbh.

true dat

[Pavlov]

Oh look, a list.

[FrostKing]

Florida Georgia Line shook Avante's cd collection

[Chris]

Black history month is the shortest month of the year. We do not celebrate a "white history month." It does little more than create division imo.

[FrostKing]

Needing a month to be recognized in the Land of Immigrants. No shame. Meh we prefer our religious holidays

[Pavlov]

Black history month is the shortest month of the year. We do not celebrate a "white history month." It does little more than create division imo.

every month is white history month.

[Chris]

Look at you, doin the troll thing.

Nope.

[Pavlov]

Nope.

What white history is being neglected, Chris?

[Sir Johnny]

Those old boxing matches were brutal, they'd just duke it out relentlessly. Wish we had some footage of bare knuckle of the late 1700s and early 1800s

I own a book that is a must for anyone into boxing...The Boxing Register. It starts way back there, would you believe fights over 100 rounds?

I liked that ring in that above video, yes, make it time so all they can do is stand and slug it out.

[Sir Johnny]

Florida Georgia Line shook Avante's cd collection

Imagine....

African tribal
American Indian flute/chants
Bach...etc
Convicts in prison
Chain gang chants out on the road
Church congregations
Appalachian hick
Cowboy/country
Jazz
Primitive blues
Urban blues
Big Band
Rockabilly
Funk/soul/R&B/punk/rap/hip hop/grunge/reggae/alternative/oldies/rock & roll

It really is incredible.

Long before The Animals



But....long before him hillbillie Clarence Ashley recorded the original in 1933.

[Mitch]

I own a book that is a must for anyone into boxing...The Boxing Register. It starts way back there, would you believe fights over 100 rounds?

I liked that ring in that above video, yes, make it time so all they can do is stand and slug it out.

That'd make boxing more exciting to watch, but folks would be dying taking that kind of beating for long. I wonder how often people were beat into the grave or into retirement in this days.

[Blake]

Nope.

If you're not trolling then you're really stupid.

[Sir Johnny]

That'd make boxing more exciting to watch, but folks would be dying taking that kind of beating for long. I wonder how often people were beat into the grave or into retirement in this days.

Actually in the very beginning it was everything goes, talking everything. Imagine that.

Started getting a little civilized in the 1700's.

Yep, pretty much quoting my book now.

The first guy with a mini bio....Jem Belcher who fought from 1798 to 1809, had about a dozen fights two over 40 rounds. And, was blind in one eye from a ball game.... ~~~

This is really hard to believe, Benjamin Brain fought 180 rounds in 1780. He never lost a fight.

Curious about deaths back then, will be back.

[Sir Johnny]

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/spo...hs-in-the-ring

[Trill Clinton]

Welcome back avante

[Sir Johnny]

Welcome back avante

Thank you my friend, I appreciate that.