What African-American Youth Are Not Learning
They know nothing about Gospel Music, Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll...or how and why they are able to afford the equipment and the training that they need to become millionaires making shitty rap records. They know nothing about Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte. Bill Cosby, Lola Falana, Sammy Davis Jr., The Supremes, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the endless list of other brilliant entertainment luminaries who fought racism and discrimination to become wealthy and respected in their fields. No. They know that whites once enslaved blacks and believe that there is a need for reparations. Do they know about great military and political leaders and social activists who have made a difference like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, Medgar Evers, Shirley Chisolm,...