Lib Professor: Disney is Racist, and Only Black People Like Jazz

Townhall.com ^ | 4-29-2014 | Michael Schaus

[Westbrook]

to the title: “and Only Black People Like Jazz”

Wait! Not only do I like jazz, I’m a jazz musician.

Can I qualify for affirmative action now?

[Flick Lives]

Wait a minute - how did we get to drag racing?

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

[equaviator]

I Wanna Be Black

By Lou Reed

Play Song
I want to be black
Have natural rhythm
Shoot twenty feet of jism, too
And **** up Jews
I want to be black
I want to be a Panther

Have a girlfriend named Samantha
And have a stable of foxy whores
Oh I want to be black

[Chorus:]
I don’t want to be a ****ed up, middle class,
College student anymore
I just want to have a stable of foxy little whores
Yeah, yeah I want to be black

I want to be black
I want to be like Martin Luther King
And get myself shot in spring
And lead a whole generation too
And **** up the Jews

I want to be black, I want to be like Malcolm X
And cast a hex over President Kennedy’s tomb
And have a big prick, too

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

So that's what happened to Joel Chandler Harris' Song of the South and Aesop's The Grass Hopper and the Ant.

[dmz]

If only black people liked jazz there wouldn’t be any.

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I’m sorry, but that is just a silly and entirely meaningless comment. Amost as silly and meaningless of the professor’s comments.

[dmz]

except I find “smooth jazz” to be dull and boring.

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smooth jazz in a contradiction in terms.

See Thelonious Monk.

[MagnoliaB]

LOL!

[driftless2]

Playing the banjo or accordion in hell might make it more tolerable. As long as those damn flames from that Lake of Fire don’t constantly torch my keister.

[dmz]

Hell is Kenny G being blasted for all eternity.

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Back a few years, I used to take a handful of Kenny G cds up to the counter and tell the clerk that these were in the wrong place - the jazz section. They almost never got it.

Like someone calling Madonna an artist, Kenny G is many things, but that does not include being a jazz musician.

Did you ever hear Richard Thompson’s “I agree with Pat Metheny”? Written after Kenny G overdubbed his stuff on Louis Armstrong? Blechh.

[dfwgator]

Did you ever hear Richard Thompson’s “I agree with Pat Metheny”? Written after Kenny G overdubbed his stuff on Louis Armstrong? Blechh.

Yes, that was hillarious....And Metheny's rant on Mr Gorelick was great....and this is a guy I've never heard say a bad thing about anyone.

[dfwgator]

See Thelonious Monk.

I'll see your Thelonius Monk and raise you Ornette Coleman.

[CodeToad]

So, if we go to Africa we will find great jazz musicians? LOL! Not! jazz is definitely a white thing as are all the instruments used in jazz.

[Disambiguator]

I like jazz too, except I find “smooth jazz” to be dull and boring.

You mean, like Kenny G? Ever seen this?

[DaveA37]

The guys a “Professor”........What did you expect he would say?

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t care what type it is. I pretty much enjoy all of it.

As for the watermellon and fried chicken, yum. Your on...

[DoughtyOne]

Guy’s obviously never heard of them.

[DoughtyOne]

There you go...

I should have thought of that!

[Misterioso]

Without the support and interest of the white public, there would be no money to pay black jazz musicians. The recording industry provided the jazz musician (black and white) with the means of reaching the mostly white listening audience, which was willing to pay for the music. In the earlier days, white businessmen “exploited” the black musicians by employing them in nightclubs and recording and distributing their music. Therefore, without the attraction to black jazz of white listeners, there wouldn’t have been a market for it.

[dmz]

Without the support and interest of the white public, there would be no money to pay black jazz musicians.

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Black musicians were playing jazz before the whites came in large numbers during the swing era.

They weren’t getting rich by any stretch, but the music existed.

Existence and the presence of good paydays are 2 very different things.

I would caution about comparing the impulse to play music and making good money. If it was about the money exclusively, we’d have very few bluegrass musicians, even fewer folk singers, and well, you get the idea.

JMO.

[Misterioso]

Of course, the fact is that jazz, if defined as improvising variations on some theme by one or more musicians, has been in existence for a long time in Europe and elsewhere. It might even be described as an expression of human nature.

You mentioned Monk. Try to imagine his career without the dedication of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, Bob Weinstock, and Orrin Keepnews. Given his personal difficulties, I think it unlikely that we would ever have heard his music without their support. I love Thelonious. I have everything he ever recorded (I hope) in my collection of LPs and CDs. I do not think that his success can be attributed to the appreciation by African Americans alone.