Posted on 06/02/2018 9:01:44 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
During African-American Music Appreciation Month, we celebrate the tremendous achievements and contributions of African-American musicians. The musical ingenuity of talented African American artists laid the foundation for so many recognizable and cherished genres of music, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, hip hop, and rap.
Throughout our history, African-American music has demonstrated its power to elicit comfort, healing, happiness, conviction, and inspiration — as well as its ability to unite people of all backgrounds. Today, it resonates in jazz quartets, rock and roll guitar solos, gospel choirs, and hip hop beats. The expression of these artistic and diverse styles of music acts as a voice for freedom, justice, love, and the pursuit of happiness.
African-American music has played a significant role in shaping the American dream and instilling a sense of pride in being an “American.” The talent and creativity of pioneers like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Etta James, Whitney Houston, and many others have indelibly enriched our culture and our lives. As Etta James noted, “I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.” Etta James recognized that the history and evolution of music in America reflects our country’s cultural uniqueness and our country’s commitment to protect and love every voice.
African-American music brings together people of all backgrounds — people who hum it, whistle it, and sing it — to enjoy blended tunes and hard-to-hit notes. Its contagious rhythm empowers its listeners to recall memories of the past and grow excited for the future. Our Nation is indebted to all the African-American artists whose music fills our airways and our homes, lifts our spirits, and compels us to think, dance, and sing. These musicians and their legacies ignite our imaginations and prove to us that the sky is the limit.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2018 as African-American Music Appreciation Month. I call upon public officials, educators, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs that raise awareness and appreciation of African-American music.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Incredible. Stephen Foster wrote characteristic songs of the day for white audiences, and his entire catalogue of his most later famouse songs were sold for 25K in 1850-55 to Mr. Christy... the largest promoter/owner of a traveling show... the Christy Minstrels (who performed in blackface).
One of his most controversial songs was “Angelina Baker”. The lyrics are incontrovertibly about a slave love affair that was never to be. The field slave in love with a beautiful house servant/slave, who is then suddenly gone (impression left she was sold away). Angelina Baker was revolutionary for its day- and was risque for the minstrel show to perform as it was highly political.
For these cultural marxists to decide 1.) Foster is “standing” (he isn’t) over a slave (it is a guy with a banjo who is very much a white man in facial features) and 2.) this is OFFENSIVE to ... whom?- how did they come to this conclusion in the MIDDLE of freaking Pittsburgh which understands the largesse of LEARNING left by its most famous latter day citizen Andrew Carnegie (funding of libraries— everywhere- knowledge to fight racism).
You see- history must, Taliban like—be erased for the Progressive neo-marxist socialists to continue to separate all US citizens from themselves and their UNITY. It is straight out of the Commie 1920’s playbook.
Check out the removal from in front of the Maryland Capitol Building (by a REPUBLICAN ostensibly governor) of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. Kid you not— it happened recently.
What in the HELL is going ON? The liberal parade continues unabated— by whom... exactly?
Syl Johnson ‘Take Me To The River’ (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-2PSp87dN0
Johnny Taylor ‘Who’s Making Love’ (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RueCun_Bh8
Dorothy Moore ‘Misty Blue’ (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMONGMDEerI
I love that song. Used to listen to it over and over.
Dorothy Berry was the wife of the man who wrote “Louie, Louie.”
The song writer and producer of this record is “Dave Gates.” Yes, the David Gates of mellow rock group “Bread.”
THIS is the kind of music we love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTKt-oq3S6k
Robert Johnson, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Tina Turner, et al, I’m down with it.
White people can't do black music ...
Al Green ‘Love And Happiness’ (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqAnjY2Rmo
WTH?
Ike & Tina Turner
‘NutBush City Limits’ (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALAWxatDoD0
James Jamerson — one of my bass heroes.
By ‘trans’ I meant gender confused.
I'll take REAL African music.
It boggles my mind that there exists such really great African music, but blacks are fed and digest this hip-hop, rap sh1t!
Elvis Presley & The Black Community - That Echo Will Never Die
I know, it was my attempt at a bad joke.
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