In other places it smells like a toxic waste dump.
Again, Mogadishu is probably the most notable example in the news right now. Other recent favorites of roving bandits and revolutionaries include Freetown, Monrovia, and Kinshasha.
You've named two West African cities.
Of course your original point was to form an analogy between Tommy Johnson and current rap lyrics about gang rape,
No, my original point referred to Robert Johnson and his songs, which go against your ridiculous claim that "Blues music transcends the brothel songs and bawdy minstrel routines that characterized its lesser forms, leaving the non-profane as its more celebrated examples today." (your #475)
the former was a fable he told about himself and the latter consists of graphic descriptions of a violent criminal act.
So ".32-20 Blues" doesn't contain "graphic descriptions of a violent criminal act"?
Since most plantations were obliterated or driven to ruin during the civil war, you'll find very few people alive today who profitted from slavery. Thank you for showing your reparationist colors though.
But many shipping and insurance companies based in the patriotic parts of America profited from slavery and were not destroyed in the War to Afford Greater Liberty to an Unstable Region.
And I'm not showing any "reparationist colors" unless you're accusing me of some thoughtcrime for mentioning the ideas that people have.
I will note though that the liberty afforded to the inhabitants of an unstable region by a colonizing power is almost always greater in comparison to the liberty afforded by the third world dictators that emerge in its place.
And I will note that it is always less than mankind's God-given rights to liberty.
Once again your hero Robert Mugabe
Unless you can provide some evidence of me praising Robert Mugabe ever, I'll advise you to stop with the personal attacks.
Not really. The swamp smell of the mississippi is pretty consistent, be it the middle of New Orleans or the middle of farm country.
You've named two West African cities.
And four African cities, seeing as I described the majority of the continent as third worldish and uncivilized. Did you not want city names after all?
No, my original point referred to Robert Johnson and his songs
"Then please explain why Robert Johnson, a man who claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil, is the "King of the Delta Blues." - zimdog, post 476
I don't see anything about songs, but I do see you misattributing Tommy Johnson's devil fable to him.
But many shipping and insurance companies based in the patriotic parts of America profited from slavery
Even so, the people who ran them when they profited from slavery are all dead. Do you plan on taxing them posthumously?
And I will note that it is always less than mankind's God-given rights to liberty.
A nice thought, except that complete unrestrained liberty does not exist in any place their is government. That makes the degree of liberty afforded the next best measure, and colonial powers in Africa afforded greater liberty than the third world dictatorships that you fawn over.