JazzMan_Blues Good Music Makes The World Go Around and Around and Around. . . . . . - December 20, 2010 add/view comments (0)

Good day and thanks for stopping by. This page is a tribute to Jazz and the History of a People. "Jazz" is an extenuation of the African chants and songs. It is an extenuation of the pain and suffering of those long, and too often, destinationless trips across the Atlantic Ocean, deep in the holes of those dark, damp, filthy, human slave ships, endured by chained, innocent, black men and children. "Jazz" is an extenuation of the humiliations suffered by these same human beings while being sold as cattle or produce. It is an extenuation of the pain of the whip, the assaulter, the procurer, the "driva' man," the patrol wagons, the kidnapper, the sunup to sundown slave field and plantation. It is the extension of many, many lynchings, castrations, and other "improvisations" of genocide on these same black men, women and children. "Jazz" is an extension of the black man, "freed," who found himself still shackled to the same chain, all shinned up, when he unwittingly ventured out into "their" free world of opportunity and wealth, only to be assaulted, whipped, murdered, and raped some more. The "Spiritual," "Race Music," "Rhythm and Blues," "Dixieland," "Jazz," (and never, yet, any of the music named by its creators, but by the disdainful, master observer). "Jazz" is an extension of the black artist being relegated to practice his or her craft, even today, under these intolerable, too similar, conditions. This is why a Jazz Man has the blues write by Max Roach...

Over the years, racism has been a growing problem in all parts of the United States. Back in the 60's there were such problems as segregated schools, which meant only children of certain color could attend a certain school. Also Blacks/Colored Poeple had to drink from different water fountains than whites did, and in some public places blacks were not allow to enter. Segregation was an attempt that whites made in the south to separate the races in every aspect of life and to prove that they were superior to blacks. It became very common in most of the southern states. Blacks had separate schools, parks, transportation, and restaurants. If this wasn't already bad enough, they were poorly funded and had much worse condition to that of whites. Blacks were also denied their voting rights.

Racism has not disappear, racial disturbances in northern cities, identified white racism as a central cause and warned that America was in danger of becoming two societies, one white, one black. As the twentieth century ended, some observers saw a declining significance of race, emphasizing class differences instead, and social scientists increasingly stressed the social construction of the concept of "race" itself. Nevertheless, as the nation's weakening commitment to racial justice threatened the gains of the civil rights movement, a renewed emphasis on inherent racial difference is evident.