XPost: rec.music.country.western, nashville.general
From: olin62@comcast.net
"Kent Finnell" wrote in message
news:ELbxe.8386$ho.9@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> "Olin Murrell" wrote in message
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>> "Lane Gray, Czar Castic" wrote in message
>> news:opss7smjgq8955ol@stylgar...
>>> On 30 Jun 2005 04:09:43 -0700, wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lane Gray, Czar Castic wrote:
>>>>> Yep. Just think how much better bluegrass or country would sound if
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> (or Jimmie Rodgers before him, or Hank Williams after) had resisted
>>>>> the
>>>>> urge to listen and learn from the black folks singing the blues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Geez, whadda dork.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lane Gray
>>>>> And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
>>>>> Gen
>>>>> 2:25
>>>>> remove the .lead from my address
>>>>
>>>> If you equate the alleged influence of blues on country music as an
>>>> important contribution to western civilization you are simply a mutant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, Captain bonehead, may I direct your attention to the headers up
>>> top? Given that this discussion takes place in rcmw, nashville.general
>>> and amb, it only seems logical to direct attention to those aspects of
>>> western civ that are germane to the topics of the groups, and it really
>>> boggles the mind that one needs to add the word 'alleged.' Hiram King
>>> Williams made no bones about the black guy that taught him a great deal
>>> of what he knew about music, Jimmie Rodgers' status as an heir to the
>>> blues is well-nigh unmistakable.
>>> One could also bring up the fact that American cuisine couldn't possibly
>>> look the way it does without African influence (deep-fat frying comes
>>> from there, pretty hard to do a french fry without it, leaving aside
>>> fried chicken or chicken fried steak), asian imports (most of the
>>> spices, the one that comes immediately to mind is cinnamon or its ersatz
>>> cousin cassia), not to mention italian foods (and of course the tomato
>>> part needed to get imported to Italy from the New World before it could
>>> make the trip here in the form of a good marinara sauce)
>>>
>>
>> "Minority" contributions to music, art, cuisine and even more important
>> disciplines is well-documented and unassailable, and further proof why
>> it's pointless to argue with the "anti-race-mixing" crowd. They always
>> have an "answer" for everything. Whether it's a valid and correct answer
>> is always entirely beside the point.
>
> Excluding very remote places like the depths of the Amazonian jungle and
> the Australian outback, I seriously doubt that there's a "pure" race of
> humans on the planet. To paraphrase Fritz Hollings, "There's been too
> much conquerin' (and fornicatin') goin' on out theah."
>
> To reiterate, there's only one human race. Generally speaking I'm proud
> to be a member of it. It's only when the bigots show up that I have my
> doubts about it being an honor and not a curse.
>
It is what it is... a collection of sentient beings mostly pleased with
moving through their lives with relative ease and comfort (some do better at
this than others, obviously), and a small but loud collection of folks who
are not even a little bit happy unless they've got somebody else to
belittle.
As for purity, those areas where the "race" is pure, it's about the only
thing going for 'em. Does this mean you can throw twenty or thirty ethnic
groups into close proximity and expect everybody to just get along? Nope,
but it's hardly a clarion call for ethnic purity and locked-down borders
either.
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