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
What about Trans Music Appreciation Month ?? How bigoted not to include them.
Nothing proves that more than the excellent documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”. You can tell the respect white singer Joan Osborne shows for these men is genuine and real, this is how we all become truly colorblind, it’s about the music and the talented people who made it, no one cared what color their skin was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBzuNZ9DlnI
Those who talk about “transcending race” need to watch this, because this is what it looks like. Not what Obama, the NFL, and the race hustlers in the media and pop culture shove down our throats.
The worlds bitches and hos can now be very proud
Agreed!
Gnarles Barkley “Crazy”-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tph_9OX_qqY
Difficult to find a quality video of this one on utube.
“empty”
and does it without recognizing ramadan...
And albinos are pink.
I had to go back and see if I spelled “empty” incorrectly. lol
Yes, you have a point about this political sleight of hand (as if AAs need a “music month” after 8 years of favoritism and “art elitism” at the White House and Kennedy center, etc in the artsy fartsy world of socialist/kenyan marxism): of absolute druggie/heroin rapper crap and a whole lot worse. Our President neatly avoids what obamaumao had which was LGBTQ/cis trans, bi Month of idiotic minority narcissism and mental illness.
June is the height of the Scots-Irish ancestry mountain string/bluegrass music festivals (through the summer, all over the country especially in the Allegheny, Appalachians, and mountains of the West. The real country music of the people who built the United States of America, and who also readily give recognition and credit to the joint labor of that endeavour (and their music shared-the Blues) the white and black slaves (indentured servants whose contracts were “extended” repeatedly once they arrived in the Colonies, or who were sentenced to “transportation” to the Colonies- meaning hard labor/prison for life). See the outstanding book: “White Cargo:The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America”
here and Amazon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2455819.White_Cargo
And for an excellent read from the oft maligned former Sen. James Webb (USNA): “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223428.Born_Fighting?ac=1&from_search=true
So we as a nation can finally put to bed the never ending— “only blacks were slaves” in the US. As well put to rest the fact that EVERY civilization— every one has experienced and practiced slavery (Vikings, Arabs, Africans, Indo-European, Slavic— the original slaves, Scandanavia, Ireland, UK, Spain, China, Mongolia, South Pacific, Denmark, Germany and the Semitic races inclusive of Ashkenazi and other Jews and Middle Eastern populations).
So, the british invasion in the 60’s. Are some of the ar-teests being sued for cultural appropriation for remaking particular AA music? Or were they just using their white privilege to “take it”. ;-)
Wow. Only 10 months left and we’ll be celebrating African-Americans all year long.
I’m going to listen to some rap now, just to raise my cultural level.
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Etta James ‘At Last’ (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cbOl96RFM
Are those people who play country and western?
Good point. Maybe the President should have designated June as “African-American Homosexual Pride Month...”
The press would make themselves dizzy from trying to spin that...
Actually, BLTs are great—I would endorse National BLT Month!
This should be interesting. :)
Now we all know where Chuck Berry got his inspiration from.....
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