Martin Luther King was a conservative and he opposed Black culture.

[tjpen]

"He was opposed to Rock and Roll , he didn't even mention jazz and was a very respectable, Christian. And he hated the flamboyant black preachers, and speaking in dialect. He wanted all black people to speak correct American English.
---- It wasn't because he was a prick. It was because of his objective: for Blacks to achieve full citizenship. And in a sense, it wasn't his fault. He understood that you have to prove yourself to be better than Whites, constantly. To get the votes, the protection under the Law, so that's what his mission was-Assimilation. Assimilation has always been the ticket to full citizenship.

So this African Americaan History is about ordinary Black people who aren't interested in being just like White people, and who were doing their thing. (like comedy, jazzy rap, blues - the root of all popp music).

People don't know that Civil Rights leaders since slavery who wanted citizenship, often attacked them for their culture, just as harshly as the KKK did.
And I'm not exaggerating. if you look at what Frederick Douglas said about Slave Culture, at what Al b dBog sometimes said about Slave and Black Culture then MLK, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, all the way through - they are saying the harshest nastiest things about the Black working class culture.
--- But again, it was to convince Whites that WE are just like THEM. So they could sit at the table, give us the Vote, we can then become president."

Thaddeus Russell, author of A Renegade History of The United States
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XhoNnZm5IDQ

 

[tjpen]

Man, this guy says the most unusual yet insightful things.
I noticed and was puzzled by the fact that some oppressed or stigmatized minority members reject their own culture or -in extremis- turn on their own. The theory of 'internalised oppression' helped me make the most sense of it, until Him.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Is it already February?

 

[Rightguide]

And logic says he was probably a Republican as well.

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://youtu.be/cuAl5cMTJ7A

https://youtu.be/1eaxFES2YXA

 

[Aglaopheme]

“God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

This is triumphant music.

Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.

It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.

Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.

And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.

In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.”




Read More: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Power of Music | http://diffuser.fm/martin-luther-king-jr-on-the-power-of-music/?trackback=tsmclip

 

[Hypoxia]

[uTube yada yada]

Two questions:

1. Who were you before?
2. Why you white'splainin'?