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 countrys cultural uniqueness and our countrys 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
Before (c)rap and hip hop filth ruined it all.
Nat King Cole
I Love You For Sentimental Reasons (1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWbzT_oAJ0
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fC1qSxpmKo
Miles took some crap from blacks because he dared have a white man, Bill Evans, play on this album.
I just cant get mad about this. I have a long drive to work and I could listen to some of Stevie Wonders deeper groves every day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQCJ6PzRdA&index=7&list=PL45dfIu93u6S3Lf6bMJBBCLdK4_LZYjY9
He’s white like his shirt!
Nah, I’m just being an ass :D
Just cannot do it. Every time I hear anything rap I feel the IQ dropping faster than the thumpa thumpa tempo.
How we went from the uplifting Motown sound to today’s hate-filled, cop-killer rap-crap or “lowtown” sound is beyond me. Does nothing to elevate anyone and drags people of all races into an all-time cultural low. Nonetheless, this is what we’ll probably see celebrated.
More of a very light beige.....not quite white....
Love my president & support him 110%, but I truly wish he & others would lay off this hyphenated American bs. Everybody nowadays is a ____-American, except whites.
It only shows that you put your loyalty of your country of ancestry above your loyalty to America. If you were actually born in Africa, China, Japan, Armenia, Columbia, etc. & are an American citizen, you are an American of African, Chinese, Japanese, Armenian, Columbian, etc. ancestry.
You are either an American, or you are not. Period.
I refuse to address anyone by these hyphenations.
Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong
at the Newport Jazz Festival (1957)
I Cant Give You Anything But Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8va5HjZl1Nw
If we eliminate (c)rap and its associated sewage, there is quite a legacy of superb music there. Gospel music, Joplin, jazz, Motown. Great stuff!
blues
There is LOTS of great music out there! Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Coasters, Nat King Cole,
Fats Waller!
Lots of great 1950s music, Dinah Washington is still my favorite!
Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQgoKNgTmc
Reference my post #49 in re: music and what the libs can’t seem to grasp (their continual cultural appropriation and lack of appreciation of the greatness of this Republic-how our music has bridged huge gaps. They won’t allow any part of it to stop their agenda of division). The history has been quite well known, and purposely ignored in Academia for just that reason- it doesn’t fit their need to re-write and erase the basis of our Founding.
Appreciate all y’all’s comments- gotta go to work.
For chris37, if that is a young Johnny or Edgar Winter (from Beaumont, TX)- both albino- they both instilled the Blues into absolute killer real rocknroll, from when we were kids, friend Rick Derringer (a converted Christian btw)- RocknRoll Hoochie Koo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHnGyU1yJQ
And for Chauncey G, an astounding track, enjoy the bass sax and guitar work, astounding vocals and writing, from 80 plus year old MoTown writer, William Bell (produced by Rosanne Cash’s beau John Leventhal) on the revived Stax Label: “Poison in the Well”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqML2VSXiUI
There are some great black singers, but I doubt many of them want to be identified as black instead of just great entertainers.
Of course, I don’t put any RAP into the great singer category.
RAP: Retarded African Poetry.
Part of the sneaky strategy of the white nationalist movement. /s
Can’t wait to see how the convoluted, pretzel logic of the left will interpret this as a form of oppression.
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