[Openurmind]

You know... as a musician I thought about this. It could be that the early minstrels had respect for the black music and vocal capabilities. There have been many famous cases where famous white musicians and artists had great appreciation for black music, many incorporated it into their style. Musicians are a different kind of critter spiritually, they could have been secretly protesting how blacks were being treated and this is how they did it. Many were from the northern states.

[\/\/ayne]

Maybe but it's doubtful. If you look at old movies with stereotypes you see people were just plain ignorant a lot. We'd like to think that everyone is and was relatively smart and nice but frankly - look around today and you see people are just as ignorant in other ways.

The nation is screaming out for a well-engineered education system that really works. Maybe some day we'll get it.