You’re unaware of a Chucks mercurial personality and his tendency to wait to go onstage for his money first...
And I hate to break it to you...but Chuck had a thing for young white girls...sometimes too young....
He shared both those traits with his brother of another color Jerry Lee Lewis
I saw black acts all my life in Mississippi in the 1960s and nothing like that ever happened
I know I know northerners know better on race...
Funny I could never figure that ....living in Manhattan in the 80s enjoying the pristine views from the Major Deegan
Shucks today would I rather be a poor black agri grunt in rural Mississippi or a black slum dweller in south Chicago or Cleveland or Detroit
I know the answer to that...
What always strikes me is how the south runs 20-90% black about everywhere except Appalachia
And the north rarely over a few points except in big cities
Yet which today has more issues with blacks ...
Ever examine where the Wilson era klan was strongest
No question the south resisted segregation and in white minority areas I don’t blame them...what would you do in a county 80% black?
I can tell you you don’t send your daughters to private schools
Hard realities sorry to beak it to u and I’m fresh out of give a shit
Berry was quite a character and his eccentricities and hard-nosed insistence on getting paid up front had a lot to do with his way above average intelligence, which needed some outlet. Glad he stuck to his guns over getting paid, because blacks were treated badly, along with underrepresented whites, in the music business; but blacks undoubtedly had it worse. Thinking of the many Delta bluesmen whose works were exploited by the Stones and others.
As for Berry’s womanizing and related issues, my above anecdote was not a character review, but merely my one-time personal experience in an era when many men of all colors in all situations felt free to come on to women inappropriately. His warm friendliness that particular evening actually surprised me; but given the times and where he was performing, doubtless he felt some kind of restraint.
I agree that the attitudes towards southern “racism” by northern whites are mind-boggling, given the difference in demographics. Democrats, then as now, were the major racists in government and society, harming everyone with their wicked ways, all blamed on the civil, tolerant or courteous folks.