He died? When? How come I’m always the last to hear these things. Bloody perochial West Australian News Media. Front page news is more likely to be about a cat in a tree than the death of a legend!
James Brown was one of the first African-Americans to call for calm when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. He received a lot of criticism for that from the African-American community, later.
His emphasis, though, was that African-Americans should push for their economic rights as much as possible, and raise their living standards through capitalist participation (most militant African-Americans were quite socialist in those days, and saw equal rights as being concomitant with socialist ideals).
James Brown couldn’t have cared less about socialism. The message he sent out was that African-Americans can make it rich, and there was nothing wrong with being rich. That, in the end, proved to be a much more potent message, and much more beneficial to the African-American community as a whole.
Sudanese Thinker I really digg your post on James Brown.
As a matter of fact, your blog is so original, how do you mange to keep up with it all while being a student and a business person? Anyhow, I feel blessed to have found your site. You can look me up anytime.
As far as Mr. Brown, he is a true legend. He changed the way that music was done and he changed the way that the world viewed soul-and no one can ever take that away from him or his family.
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So long, Godfather. We’ll miss you. If he had to go, I suppose today was about as good a day as any.
He died? When? How come I’m always the last to hear these things. Bloody perochial West Australian News Media. Front page news is more likely to be about a cat in a tree than the death of a legend!
R.I.P wife-beater, drug-addict, gun-slinger. God-gifted singer. Another reminder to distinguish the message from the messenger.
James Brown was one of the first African-Americans to call for calm when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. He received a lot of criticism for that from the African-American community, later.
His emphasis, though, was that African-Americans should push for their economic rights as much as possible, and raise their living standards through capitalist participation (most militant African-Americans were quite socialist in those days, and saw equal rights as being concomitant with socialist ideals).
James Brown couldn’t have cared less about socialism. The message he sent out was that African-Americans can make it rich, and there was nothing wrong with being rich. That, in the end, proved to be a much more potent message, and much more beneficial to the African-American community as a whole.
James Brown you will be sorely missed…
Sudanese Thinker I really digg your post on James Brown.
As a matter of fact, your blog is so original, how do you mange to keep up with it all while being a student and a business person? Anyhow, I feel blessed to have found your site. You can look me up anytime.
As far as Mr. Brown, he is a true legend. He changed the way that music was done and he changed the way that the world viewed soul-and no one can ever take that away from him or his family.
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