Ridiculous! A lot of talented black singers hit the charts during the 1950’s and achieved prosperity they would not have won in earlier times.
Cannot wait for these yutes to return home and turn in their parents for racist speech, cultural appropriations, and inherent priviledge
Send in Kevin Bacon, time to cut loose and get footloose
Too many white poodles on the poodle skirts.
Threads like this demonstrate how ignorant so many posters are of historical reference
And that we have concern trolls here always at the ready to pretend to be reasonable about race to hide their real agenda which is anything but conservative
So many freepers are so stupid about black people
It’s mind numbing to see it day in and day out here
Raisin’ a damn generation of sissies...and, privileged sissies, at that.
It’s a dance, kids! A dance. It’s not a political debate. It’s not a street demonstration. It’s a dance.
Get over yourselves. Lighten up, Nancy!
Lock the whinies in a safe space room and never let them out.
As stated, the 50’s were the start of integration...
Presley etal admit their style of Music was born from the Black Spirituals of the time.
I have ‘always’ contended that if the integration of Public schools would have started with kindergarten and worked its way up, it would have been ‘easily’ accepted after a few years.
What ‘they’ basically did was say “Integration starts this fall. Effective immediately THIS will be your NEW school”, then proceeded to bus people around to their new schools, not mattering what grade you were in.
That was a ‘mind boggling experience, especially for people who had been going to the same system with friends et al for their entire school career.
My mother moved me in 1956 - as a Senior - from a small town in NY State to a High School in Glendale CA that had more students in the graduating class than we had people in the small hamlet in NY we were living in. I quit on my 17th birthday as a Senior and went in the Navy.
Imaging uprooting ALL students like that - then sit back and wonder why such a great plan (barf) never worked.
What a bunch of ignoramuses and nitwits. How could a '50s party be racist? There were plenty of black entertainers making hit records in '50s: Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Fats Domino and, of course, Chuck Berry and others.
Political Correctness has rendered about half our population as just plain stupid.