Getting back to Black History Month

[Avante]

Not everyone is a historian.

It's actually more about delving deep into your interests. If I;m into something I need to know all there is to know about it and won't rest until I do. I want it all so I go get it it all.

Not counting the books by Wright, Baldwin and Ellison

Soledad Brother...George Jackson
BAD...James Carr
To Be a Slave...Julius Lester
******.... Gregory
The Negro in Pilgramage America....C. Eric Lincoln
Go Down Dead...Shane Stevens
Black Like Me...John Howard Grffin
Black Rage...William H. Grier
Tear Down the Wals...Dorothy Sterling
Long Journey Home...Julius Lester
The Negro Revolt....Louis E. Lomax
Malcomb X...Walter Dean Myers
The Strange Career of Jim Crow....C. Vann Woodward
Black Voices...a number of stories by black authors
Why Black People Tend to Shout....Ralph Wiley
Blackthink...Jesse Owens
Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America
Roots...Arthur Haley
Black Nationalism...E.U.Essien -Udom
Soul on Ice...Eldridge Cleaver
Growing Up Black...Jay David
Black Struggle.....Bryan Fulks
Lady Sings the Blues...Billie Holliday
The Negro Revolution....Robert Goldston
Message to the Black Man...Elijah Muhhamad
The Known World...Edward P. Jones
Paul Robeson a Biography....Martin Bauml Duberman
From Solavery To Freeman....John Hope Franklin

and the classic....The Autobiography Of An EX-Colored Man...James Weldon Johnson


That is my education on the subject. Along with blacks in sports, and the HBCU

[ChumpDumper]

It's actually more about delving deep into your interests. If I;m into something I need to know all there is to know about it and won't rest until I do. I want it all so I go get it it all.

Yes, no one else in the world could ever buy a bunch of almanacs. You're amazing.

[Avante]

I have about 20 books on Islam/Middle East another fascinating subject.

Cunkingfunk what do you find interesting?

[ChumpDumper]

So many lists....

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

lists on lists on lists

[Clipper Nation]

So basically Avante finally admits he gets all his "knowledge" from almanac books

[Avante]

So basically Avante finally admits he gets all his "knowledge" from almanac books

You never ever get it right, sheesh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was just a little white kid growing up in central Cali, I went to an all white (few Mexicans) high school. At that school I was the stud running back/sprinter. Then we'd go up against schools like Tulare Union and Lemoore and all those blacks, I'd get my lilly white ass kicked, same in football. It was the black guys around here stealing the show. That's when I started picking up on this. then there was the music. Then my black girlfriend at a time when that wasn't too cool even around here, she went to Redwood our crosstown rival, I met her at a party, she was one of the Russells, a family of four boys who were all outstanding athletes and two sisters who ran track. Yep, no father in the home.

Then here came my Navy days and I'm now meeting some southern blacks, the stories they told...wow!

Sorry dummy but unlike your dumbass I like to learn about things I find interesting. Why you need to stay stupid...????

[Avante]

lists on lists on lists

You don't have to be here or read any lists, right?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Do you have to be on here to watch your wife get her kidneys relocated by Lorenzo Neal's stunt double?

[CuckingFunt]

I have about 20 books on Islam/Middle East another fascinating subject.

Cunkingfunk what do you find interesting?

Now you're requesting lists?

[Avante]

Do you have to be on here to watch your wife get her kidneys relocated by Lorenzo Neal's stunt double?

I started to say....that's funny if we were 12....but what 12 year old thinks that's funny?

[Clipper Nation]

You never ever get it right, sheesh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was just a little white kid growing up in central Cali, I went to an all white (few Mexicans) high school. At that school I was the stud running back/sprinter. Then we'd go up against schools like Tulare Union and Lemoore and all those blacks, I'd get my lilly white ass kicked, same in football. It was the black guys around here stealing the show. That's when I started picking up on this. then there was the music. Then my black girlfriend at a time when that wasn't too cool even around here, she went to Redwood our crosstown rival, I met her at a party, she was one of the Russells, a family of four boys who were all outstanding athletes and two sisters who ran track. Yep, no father in the home.

Then here came my Navy days and I'm now meeting some southern blacks, the stories they told...wow!

Sorry dummy but unlike your dumbass I like to learn about things I find interesting. Why you need to stay stupid...????

tl;dr: You're a got

Do you have to be on here to watch your wife get her kidneys relocated by Lorenzo Neal's stunt double?

[ChumpDumper]

Now you're requesting lists?

[Avante]

Now you're requesting lists?

The with lists, they are just something to illustrate an interest in a quick way.

[Avante]

tl;dr: You're a got

translation

Avante, once anything goes past a sentence or two I 'm lost. Keep it simple, ok?

[Avante]

What a shame so many here fight learning anything, I find that weird. I wanna know all I can.

[ChumpDumper]

What a shame so many here fight learning anything, I find that weird. I wanna know all I can.

False premise.

People just don't care about you.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Avante, you like any Misssissippi John Hurt?

[Avante]

Hurt is rather unique, he was a Delta player but you'd swear he was a Piedmont player. He has that finger picking style without that heavy base string sound, not the percusson we associate the Delta players with. And he has those smooth vocals. I have his 1928 recordings and a lot of his rediscovery tunes in the 60's. Yep, one of the legends.

Garfield Akers is considered to be one of the great bummers in Delta blues history, as you can see a tremendous talent, but....just two records. Notice the difference in style from Hurt. he recorded a year later. Classic Mississippi Delta blues here.