"Within" the OTHER "Fading" World??
The word is, that BOBBY WOMACK died a few days a go. Yet, another "Black Star" fades!. Several months back, BOBBY "blue" BLAND also died. These two guys were very instrumental in my being able to maintain my SANITY during my daily slog of dealing with CRACKER INSANITIES; over a period lasting almost eight DECADES! Life "outside" our Cracker Bubble; that masquerades today as "Western Culture", can be quite untenable; especially for non-whites, even today! In my youth it was downright miserable and very dangerous. It's that way (for "so-called-illegal) immigrants, today!
Since the darkest days of Chattel Slavery, Blacks in this country developed their MUSIC; to unite and console themselves. It was, as I remember, in the early 1950's that the Black portion of the Post-War, Pre- "Baby-Boomers" sharply increased the economic value of what the Crackers in Missouri called "Race Music" (everything musical that Blacks created; from Field Hollers, to Spirituals, to Blues, Rag-Time, Jazz, Big-Band, Rhythm & Blues, and Rock and Roll, I turned 13 years of age in 1952, shortly after the 45-R.P.M. recordings emerged, and was a beneficiary of this phenomenon as it was occurring. I have an extensive collection of those recordings; gleaned "for free" from the local Radio Station that banned them as "Race Music". Then, the white teenagers "discovered", what they were taught to be the "music of the devil", and they couldn't get enough! The Brits caught on, came to this country, invaded the black churches to find out how to "exploit" the music; and the rest is "History"! (Beatles, Stones, the whole sorry lot!). The Black Stars were mostly "screwed", as a consequence, in every way imaginable.
Over my life-time, I have been privileged to meet and spend time with hundreds of these gifted Black artists -- many of whom the "Cracker Exploitation" never stumbled across.
They say you know you're getting old when nobody knows your music, or, your 'STARS" (?) Their "loss"!!
Stay Vigilant! Find ways to survive, and "Overcome"??
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