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Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
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Thanks for showing that jack wagon the door, Windy. Glad someone finally gave his arrogant @zz the boot!
She/It surely looks big enough.
And knew how to tune them. I hear so much of today's so-called metal, and the guitars aren't even in tune! It seems like all you need is "black wall of death" guitars, double kick drums, Cookie Monster-sounding vocals, and put it all together using Pro Tools so it'll sound just like everything else, and you have a hit on today's rock radio.
There are some talented newer guitarists out there -- John 5 comes to mind -- but my guitar heroes tend to be from the Slash era and older.
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Manual? I don't need no steeeeenkin' manual!
Oh yeah...I do. But last I saw it was a couple of years ago. Probably should download a .pdf, but more than likely I still wouldn't read it.
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Good job! Thanks for the classic butt hurt form and the great intro.
Yes ma'am. I'm glad I was able to do something to help evict him. Thank you!
Lol, yes, us Mom’s know all the very important aspects to impart!
Please keep us updated, wishing there were something I could do to help.
I’ll be damned.
The smarmy,smug,self-satisfied attitude was driving me nuts.
Thanks for the ping.
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Outstanding incident report, Colonel.
Thanks for the ping.
First Uncle Chip, now AlexW.
They both were given many chances to change their tune.
Thanks but I will give the credit to wkuman Windy. He can write better in his sleep than I can!
Best ‘Post ZOT’ comments ever! Well done!
It’s looking like a lot more than just the Manger Dawgs were tired of him.
Today’s music reflects a lot of what’s going on in the headds of the kids.
Dark times, dark music.
Some of it is decent. But the “guitarist” aspect of it is missing. Where are the new Carlos Santanas, Uncle Teddys, Blackmores, Gary Moores (RIP, Gary), Rory Gallagher (RIP), Stevie Ray Vaughns (RIP)?
Nothing on the horizon that I’ve heard. And that’s a shame.
If you pick up an instrument, LOVE it and be the best you can be at it.
Same as anything else you set your hand to.
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Not everyone is a fan of Guns n' Roses -- I am -- but there's no denying that in '87, when rock n' roll had gotten old and stale, those guys came along and shook things up. Unfortunately, just a few years later, Nirvana came in like a tornado and everyone forgot how to play songs with more than three chords and lyrics that weren't mumbled. Since then, a few decent bands have come out, like Brother Cane, Velvet Revolver, and Caroline's Spine, but for the most part, rock n' roll has been in a death spiral. Time for someone to step up and shake the Earth again.
I agree...RIP Gary Moore. That man could shred until his fingers were glowing, then slow it down and play blues with so much soul, I'd be close to tears. We lost a good one there.
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Ding dong the cowardly expat is gone.......
Hey,we never got to see the quote!!!!
Hale! How’s it hangin’ guy?
I suppose we could consider it his 'going away' consolation prize.
Some prize, huh? A lie that he never could back up.
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