President Barack Obama declares June as African-American Music Appreciation Month

CBS 46 ATLANTA ^ | 03 JUNE 2016 | TYREE RUSH

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

ATLANTA (CBS46) - President Barack Obama has recently announced that June is African-American Music Appreciation Month.

In a statement released through the White House he says, "A vital part of our Nation's proud heritage, African-American music exemplifies the creative spirit at the heart of American identity and is among the most innovative and powerful art the world has ever known. "

[Lizavetta]

Awww... I grew up loving black music, back when they had actual music. But nobody plays Motown anymore...

No kidding. Sam Cooke, Four Tops, James Brown, too many to name ... back when black music and harmonies were great.

Now it's ugly thug crap.

Leon Bridges is a welcome throwback, though.

[mjp]

President Barack Obama has recently announced that June is African-American Music Appreciation Month.

hip hop is the most vulgar and obscene of all the music genres

[faithhopecharity]

What to do each day to needle — and weaken — and impoverish — and demoralize. AMericans. Yes. Obama is a Muslim version of the ever ready bunny

[SaveFerris]

Yep.

Shoot, Barry White, Earth Wind and Fire, “Who’s That Lady”’ by the Isley Brothers. Too many to mention. All excellent musicians.

[SaveFerris]

Ah, the JFK quote is near the end - just a little before it.

[SteveinSATX]

pandering much?

[trisham]

He’s a pig.

[trisham]

Motown was great. Rap and hip-hop stink.

[New Jersey Realist]

I can’t disagree. Thanks to black music we have Rock and Roll. Those were the good old days! Remember the crap Elvis and others got for singing that Ni**er music?

[SaveFerris]

Now, now, there’s no reason to insult pigs.

;)

He panders to everything he can. How people cannot see through him is beyond me. I think it must be supernatural blindness (as prophesied in the Word of God).

There is no logical nor rational reason why this poser isn’t painfully-obvious.

[rhoda_penmark]

“But nobody plays Motown anymore...”

I do. (I always say that I used to listen to “black music” back when it used to be good.)

Try explaining to young folks how everything, Soul/R&B/Rock and Roll used to all be on the same radio station. :-)

[Gator113]

Same here.

[redcatcherb412]

wait ... I thought he just signed a proclomation that June is homo-pride month. So is it AA-Homo-Pride month now ?

http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/788129/president-proclaims-june-as-lgbt-pride-month

I mean he put the power of the Defense Dept. om it, so what is June really ?

[trisham]

Agreed. He’s a parasite.

[trisham]

We have quite a collection of old music. What a different time.

[tumblindice]

I used to wash dishes at the Bolling Air Force Officers club when I was 16, basically scraping dishes and loading them into the Hobart.

Three black guys, pot-washers with aprons and long rubber gloves—they sang the best Motown while they worked. Perfect harmony.
We would pour the undrunk wine into one jug and the hard stuff into another.
Free drinks, that lemon-scented dishwashing detergent steam-cleansing my sinuses, and Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, the Temptations ... I almost would have worked there for free.

[HughManelmo]

To do list:

1. Encourage cash-strapped cities to hold festivals
2. Provoke a confrontation
3. Stoke the conflagration
4. Repeat

[trisham]

I hear you. Those were the days.

[musicman]

It sure could have been written for Barry. The lyrics fit.