You think jazz and blues happened in a black folks vacuum
How silly
Funny no jazz or blues in Africa like here
Duh could it be white people influenced them?
Exactly, Jazz was taking European instruments and finding new ways to use them.
This is your comment.
replete
[rəˈplēt] filled or well-supplied with something.
nothingness
[ˈnəTHiNGnəs]
NOUN
1. the absence or cessation of life or existence.
"the fear of the total nothingness of death"
2. worthlessness; insignificance; unimportance.
"the nothingness of it all overwhelmed him"
Taken together, your comment is "Minorities histories are filled with worthlessness; insignificance; unimportance."
So, let's backtest you comment vis-a-vis jazz and blues. Those musical genres didn't emanate from white folks, but rather from black folks. If you want to debate that well-settled point, please commence. For now, we'll take it as a given.
Your response intimates that you think blues and jazz are not "filled with worthlessness; insignificance; unimportance." However, if those genres emanated from blacks, your comment would appear to be contradictory.
If you decide to pivot, and argue that those genres reached the level of popularity today because of white influence (this is a supply-side, not demand side discussion), then we can have that discussion. But that evolutionary pathway discussion is a diversion from your original comment.
If you further pivot and try to look to Africa (which is unusual, but it's your post), that may be an interesting debate...but your hypothesis (as best as I can infer it) that blacks in Africa didn't create jazz or blues but blacks in America did, it would suggest that blacks in America are more creative or have greater skills etc that those across the pond. That is, unless you somehow want to argue that jazz and blues came from black Americans because of whites, which is a stretch unless you want to say that maltreatment etc was a good thing for these genres' genesis.
But that is all a diversion to your original supposition, which is that "Minorities histories are filled with worthlessness; insignificance; unimportance." Which, at least with regard to jazz and blues, is at best a stretch.
Thanks for listening. And no, those other FReepers aren't related to me.