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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/RJiL5siOqqw. I have been looking for old music for Black American History Month. I found this soulful song, "I Just Want to Make Love to You," by Etta James. I love this song. It has poetry, passion, and soul we really... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/RJiL5siOqqw. I have been looking for old music for Black American History Month. I found this soulful song, "I Just Want to Make Love to You," by Etta James. I love this song. It has poetry, passion, and soul we really can't find in Black American music today. If you think that a recent Black American artist has this type of poetry and passion, please comment with a recommendation for the recent artist and that artist's song, so I can listen to it on YouTube or something. I have been very dissatisfied with Black American music since the mid-1990s. It seems that since the mid-1990s, the mainstream entertainment industry have banned Black Americans from using Soul and R&B and reserved it only for non-Black Americans. So, when we go out on the radio to look for R&B/Soul, a white person is singing the closest semblance of traditional R&B/Soul and the major Black American artists are singing pop music and simply calling it R&B/Soul by virtue of being Black. But race is not the same as culture. When Black American culture is stolen and absorbed into the mainstream where they can't use it, this assimilation process takes away those things that make Black Americans, culturally, "Black" and/or "Black American." The music industry is leading a a cultural genocide against Black Americans via assimilation. It is a genocide via assimilation. Cultural "Blackness" is being redefined by a non-Black American majority and the coopted Black American artists, who perform crossover music to gain wealth, power, and prestige. Listen to Etta James' "I Just Want to Make Love to You" at https://youtu.be/RJiL5siOqqw. Ask yourselves why Black Americans are not allowed to make R&B/Soul music anymore. If they are, it is not making it to the radio and those artists are not marketed as major players in the music industry. If you have recommendations to a recent artist with traditional Black American R&B/Soul music, please respond with your recommendations and possibly a link to the YouTube video, if you can. #blackhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #rythemandblues, #rnb, #randb, #soul, #music, #blackmusic, #whitemusic, #banned, #stolen, #culture, #identity. less
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