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Link: https://womenshistorymonth.gov. March is Women's History Month. Your local library might be holding special events or have lists of women's biographies featured on their websites. How will any of you observe Women's History Month? Which woman or... moreLink: https://womenshistorymonth.gov. March is Women's History Month. Your local library might be holding special events or have lists of women's biographies featured on their websites. How will any of you observe Women's History Month? Which woman or group of women in history is most important to you? Which woman or group of women has made the greatest impact in your lives? What book about a woman will you be reading from the library in observance of women's history month? I have been distracted by other readings. I want to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks or Hidden Figures. I've just haven't got the time. Also, there is a biography of Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton that I want to read too. It feels like there are so many books and so little time. If I had to make a choice, I would prefer to read about Harriet Tubman, because, according to legend, she said, "I'm not free until we are all free." If she truly spoke those words, it is exactly what post-modern Black Americans need to hear. We need to hear a Black person say those words rather than "I've got mine," so damn all the rest of you Blacks, who don't. That is the predominant attitude of most Black Americans and it needs to change. We learn that stinky, selfish attitudes from wealthy Blacks in the entertainment industries, but those wealthy Blacks lack the morals and credibility to lead or speak on our behalves. Yet, the white media always run to a wealthy Black entertainer to settle a dispute in their favor between non-Blacks and the Black community. We need to bolster Black American heroes, who inspire racial unity, and tear down the pedestals of racist or integrationist Blacks, who don't inspire racial unity. #womenshistorymonth, #womenshistory, #women, #history, #blacks. less
March is Women's History Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museu
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/rLO-sBrVJuM. The song is "Ain't That Good News," by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. The narrator says, "The Negros took also their masters' Christian religion," as though... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/rLO-sBrVJuM. The song is "Ain't That Good News," by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. The narrator says, "The Negros took also their masters' Christian religion," as though any slave had a choice in how they thought or felt or saw the world as manufactured slaves. I disagree with the narration of this album, because it suggest that Christianity was a logical choice for Black American slaves rather than a weapon of social control. Yet, at the same time, I appreciate Voices Incorporated for preserving this music if it turns out to be authentic. I urge Black American artists of all kinds to preserve their folk culture from a Black American perspective and for a Black American audience for the sake of posterity in libraries and museums. This album was made about Black Americans, but for non-Black Americans and interpreted from a non-Black American perspective. Migration was forced. Sex with genocidal devils were forced. The loss of African language, religion, and culture was forced. Christianity was not a choice; it was weapon to make Black American slaves docile when they should have been killing their masters in their sleep to gain their freedom. Like Africa, Black Americans outnumbered whites for a period of time during formal slavery. What kept them from killing their masters and running away? (1) The psychological trauma of the Middle Passage, (2) the "seasoning process" which involves physical assault, battery, torture, rape, and sexual assault, (3) forced Christianity that beat a false, white, Jewish god into the heads of Black American slaves, teaching them to worship the entire Eurasian white race as a secular extension of the Christian faith. Read Slave Testimonies of actual Black American slaves in slavery and Prejudice and Your Child by Kenneth Clark. Slave testimonies confirm that the more religious a slave master is, the more evil, violent, sinful, and genocidal that "god-fearing" slave master is. The book by Kenneth Clark confirms what Black American slaves witnessed firsthand: the more religious a person is, the more prejudiced he/she is. See the movie, The God Who Wasn't There, on YouTube. The messengers of the Christian faith to Africa and to the Black American slaves they had created knew their god is fictional, not a historical person with magical powers. Today's Black American Christian ministers know that Jesus is not a historical person. Yet, Black American Christian ministers lie to their Black American congregations and partner with the non-Black majority to perpetuate a slave mentality among every successive generation of Black Americans. Black Americans will not have the will to defend themselves against all forms of genocide by the multiracial racist majority if they do not walk away from Christianity. Black Americans may not have had a choice for the past 400 years, but you have access to the exchange of information on social media and resources in public libraries now. There are books at the library under subject headings or keywords, "Jesus Christ historicity." Ask yourselves if it is logical to worship the god of an evil people, who enslaved you. If the messengers of Christianity to Black American slaves were racist, violent, evil criminals, wouldn't their god be just as evil too? Black American street artists need to preserve their folk arts just like this album does but from a Black American perspective. A Black American cultural renaissance is necessary to redefine the Black American identity apart from what non-Black Americans manufactured them to be by separating the good cultural adaptations to slavery by Black Americans from the self-destructive cultural adaptations to slavery imposed upon Black Americans by a multicultural racist majority. Black American folk culture from slavery is important to forming a positive group identity. #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #renaissance, #blackrenaissance, #blackamericanrenaissance. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/T-MRO0FjsFA. The song is "Work Song Medley" by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. I found a second album on Freegal and YouTube with Black American slaves' folk music, but it... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/T-MRO0FjsFA. The song is "Work Song Medley" by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. I found a second album on Freegal and YouTube with Black American slaves' folk music, but it is like a condensed musical introduction to Black American history from the slave ship to popular Black American musical expressions. The album has narrations in between the music as though it was intended for a non-Black American audience. Listen to the album and decide whether the album was made for Black American slave descendants or non-Black Americans. I don't like the idea that an album about Black Americans was designed specifically for non-Black-Americans, but I appreciate their preservation of Black American folk music. For those of you, who are street artists, you, too, can preserve Black American slaves' folk culture for sale to libraries and museums, so the rest of us can research it, analyze it, write about it, and enjoy it. #blacks, #music, #history, #slaves, #slave, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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Work Song Medley: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Bayeza · Voices Incorporated
Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before mentioning "troubled water." If any of you can recall, Simon and Garfunkel sang a song, "Bridge over Troubled Waters." I wonder if they took that expression from a slave song. Maybe? Maybe not? I don't presume to know. I am just asking. If any of you know for sure, inform me. I have suggested that Black Americans spark a cultural renaissance focusing on Black American slaves' folk culture and to sell those reproductions of art, music, dance, etc. to libraries and museums for profit and/or for religious worship. One person has already shot down the suggestion as if everything else African-American leaders have been doing on our behalves has been working to our benefit. American Negro Slave Songs is the only album I can find on Freegal about Black American slave music. Maybe there are others. I am just letting Black American slave descendants know that Black American slaves' folk culture is a market with little or no competition. There should be money to be made here. Yes, I believe if something is not broken, we should leave it alone. However, African-American leaders, who are chosen, financed, and elected by whites and immigrants, have decided things for the Black American poor and under their leadership, social conditions for Black Americans in poverty never get better. Things are only getting worse. Most of us have heard the expression, "It is insane to repeat the same things over and over again and expect a different result." Most Black Americans use the same old solutions for the same old problems and expect a different result. Most Black Americans are unwilling to try new solutions for old problems. One has called me a reverse racist against Africans, stupid, uneducated, and ignorant for suggesting new solutions to old problems, because Afrocentrism simply is not working economically, politically, or culturally to the benefit of Black American slave descendants. Let Obama's election as the first half-white, African immigrant president be a testament to how well Afrocentrism is working for Black American slave descendants. Obama won by Black Americans' votes and then, told them they don't deserve reparations for slavery. Perhaps, sparking a Black American renaissance based upon the best aspects of slave culture could change the course of Black Americans' future if we studied it, reproduced it, sold it, and practiced it. There is money to be made in folk arts and culture by selling to libraries and museums. For those of us, who are practicing artists, please consider preserving Black American slave culture in the ways Alex Foster and Michael LaRue has done. I found their music on Freegal through my library and then, I looked it up on YouTube. #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #slave, #slaves, #slavery, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #folk, #folkmusic, #folkculture, #folkways. less
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Voo-Doo American · Alex Foster · Michel LaRue
American Negro Slave Songs (Digitally Remastered)
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/-O8QWs-Nc14. The song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue is marketed as American Negro Slave Songs. One line in the song says "Follow the drinking gourd for the old man is waiting for to carry... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/-O8QWs-Nc14. The song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue is marketed as American Negro Slave Songs. One line in the song says "Follow the drinking gourd for the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom." It sounds as though it is an instruction to find an underground railroad conductor. I have no way of knowing for, but this is something for a Black American musician, musicologist, ethno-musicologist, or music historian to study and teach the rest of us. It came from a folk album. There is not a lot of competition for Black American folk music, dance, arts, crafts, and food ways. A group of Black American artists can combine their myriad skills and produce streaming media and sell it to libraries, so independent researchers and students can have access to it from library e-media contractors. Many of us don't want to think, remember, or study Black American slavery, but many of us love to complain when a white person does it for us. I don't know the race or ethnicity of Alex foster and Michael LaRue. I can't find any pictures. I don't think they have a Wikipedia page either. Regardless of what they may be, their voices sound inauthentic or culturally detached. However, I appreciate their preservation of those slave songs. Please share these Black American slave songs with others. #blacks, #music, #history, #slave, #slaves, #slavery, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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Follow the Drinking Gourd · Alex Foster · Michel Larue
American Negro Slave Songs
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8ZbT42mixwk. This is supposedly a traditional Black American slave song called, I'm Packing Up, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. Finding slave songs to share for Black American History Month was my original goal. When I... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/8ZbT42mixwk. This is supposedly a traditional Black American slave song called, I'm Packing Up, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. Finding slave songs to share for Black American History Month was my original goal. When I couldn't find it, I settled on sharing traditional R&B/Soul music. There is money to be made form Black American history and culture. We like to sing, dance, and watch movies. If there was a Black American renaissance, Black American artists can research traditional slave culture and reproduce it for libraries. I don't anticipate a majority of people buying it or personal use necessarily, but it needs to be reproduced for sale to libraries and museum exhibits for posterity. A separate Black American economy can be fueled by reviving traditional Black American slave culture and making up new cultural expressions. #blacks, #slaves, #slavery, #music, #history, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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I'm Packing Up · Alex Foster · Michel LaRue
American Negro Slave Songs (Digitally Remastered)
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Released on: 2009-11-24
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It took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American... moreIt took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American Negro Slaves by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. If you have a library card, you can download five songs per week from Freegal from the album, American Negro Slave Songs. Just an idea to those of you, who are musicians, dancers, and artists... Has it ever occurred to you to get your drum circle, dance troupe, and fellow artists together, research, preserve, and reproduce Black American slave songs, dances, instruments, clothing, crafts, and historic foodways to create a market by and for Black Americans, who are hungry for our own history? Any book, DVD, or CD you make about Black American historic culture in slavery will not sell to the masses like pop music, but it can be reviewed and marketed just for libraries where people preserve knowledge and need access to that information for posterity. I have listened to only one album, American Negro Slave Songs, on Freegal, but the singers sound inauthentic as though the ways they were singing or speaking were forced and unnatural. If they turn out to be white or mulatto, none of us can get mad, because at least they made an effort to preserve the slave music of our ancestors in American slavery while so many of us try to cover ourselves with African clothes, African music, African dance, and African languages and turn our backs on our Black American slave heritage as if it is something to be ashamed of. If you are an artist of some kind, please consider preserving Black American slave culture so a white person does not have to do it for us. #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #history, #folk, #folkmusic, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #culture, #folkways, #market, #economics. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/2VRSAVDlpDI. Listen to James Brown’s "Say it loud, I'm Black, and I'm proud.” I don’t know of any recent, famous Black singer, who is using his/her art to demand equality for Black American slave descendants. If you... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/2VRSAVDlpDI. Listen to James Brown’s "Say it loud, I'm Black, and I'm proud.” I don’t know of any recent, famous Black singer, who is using his/her art to demand equality for Black American slave descendants. If you know of any, please share a link with me of that person’s YouTube video. The African-American bourgeoisie is equally racist as non-blacks against the Black American poor. Once a Black person attains a level of wealth, prestige, and power, they distance themselves from Black Americans. They start calling themselves any number of names that remove the word, “Black,” from their identity. They will find a white or white ethnic spouse of some kind. Yet, when called upon by the white and immigrant media to speak on the behalves of Black Americans, their views are identical to those of racist whites and racist immigrants. If you know of any indie or unsigned Black American artists, who communicate political messages in their music, please share them with me. Thanks… In search of proud Black Americans… #blacks, #music, #politics, #history, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #art, #arts, #culture, #inequality, #injustice. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI. Listen to Billie Holiday’s song, “Strange Fruit.” In recent years, we have watched the most famous Black singers produce crossover pop music for their white audiences and the music industry’s bleaching... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI. Listen to Billie Holiday’s song, “Strange Fruit.” In recent years, we have watched the most famous Black singers produce crossover pop music for their white audiences and the music industry’s bleaching R&B/Soul music white. The African-American bourgeoisie is too happy to assist the white theft of Black music in exchange for wealth, power, and prestige. I am sharing “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday to motivate Black Americans to look for a recent Black American singers, who sing about racial oppression and genocide on Black American slave descendants. Is there anyone, who is making music about the Black American experiences in recent times? Please share a link. “Strange Fruit” describes the lynchings of Black Americans. Black music can used for anything: praising that mythological, white, Jewish god, love, sex, breakups, cheating, Black pride, the environment, war, bragging about one’s material possessions, gossip, rumors, exalting one’s self as superior to all others… We have heard it all from Black singers. We have watched non-blacks murder Black Americans and walk free from those criminal charges by judicial and jury nullification in recent times when Black Americans are supposedly free, equal, and protected by constitutional laws that go unenforced by the African-American Democrats that most Black Americans in poverty vote for, unwittingly against their best interests. There are many hate crimes that are being committed by both racist whites and racist Blacks that will never make into the news media or to a trial, because the racist multicultural majority controls the news media, law enforcement, the judges, and the African-American Democratic officials. The African-American leaders and entertainers, who are chosen, financed, and elected by non-blacks to speak on the behalves of all Black Americans to their detriment are just as racist, oppressive, discriminatory, exploitive, and guilty in maintaining an unjust society against Black American slave descendants in poverty. Once they are speaking or entertaining a racially mixed population, those African-American leaders and entertainers never speak of Black issues again and turn their backs on the Black American community, who helped enrich and empower them. Look for the political Black American singer if you can find him or her. If you know of any recent Black American singers with a political song, please share that person’s YouTube video with me. I would love to know who he/she is. #blacks, #music, #history, #lynchings, #lynch, #strangefruit, #genocide, #murders, #society, #slavery, #enslavement, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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Thanks to Black Inspiration on HTN, I have learned about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Here is a YouTube video of her singing, “That’s All”: https://youtu.be/l9bX5mzdihs. I have read her Wikipedia biography. She influenced so many singers. It is a shame... moreThanks to Black Inspiration on HTN, I have learned about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Here is a YouTube video of her singing, “That’s All”: https://youtu.be/l9bX5mzdihs. I have read her Wikipedia biography. She influenced so many singers. It is a shame that a Black woman created Rock n Roll and we have never heard of her. The earliest name we may be exposed to by the media is Chuck Berry, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe influenced him to. I have been sharing my favorite R&B/Soul songs from YouTube onto Facebook and Hour Time Now, because I am unsatisfied with Black music, dating from the mid-1990s to the present. However, I do listen to a variety of styles. If anyone would like to share some historical and cultural tidbits and links about the history of Black music with me, please do. If you know of any Black American indie musicians, who produce traditional Black American music today share that with me too. I love to learn. #blacks, #music, #history, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #rocknroll, #rockandroll. less
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