Re: This Music & Race

From: Jonathan Ashley (jon@oblivion.accessus.net)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 04:00:39 CEST

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    On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Elson Trinidad wrote:

    > At 12:37 PM 3/31/01 -0600, Jonathan Ashley wrote:
    > >
    > > > in an interview A Guy called Gerald, who now lives in the states, told that
    > > > a lot of times when he spoke to black people in the states they couldn't
    > > > believe that there were also black people living in the UK....the world was
    > > > either divided in african people or afro-americans...
    > >
    > >That part about black people in the uk is true. I was at my barber once
    > >and he didn't believe it. And it's the history books that do that son.
    > >Part again of our fucked up education system.
    >
    >
    > It's really just perspective. Some people live in a closed society, by
    > either socioeconomic or psychological reasons.

    Or because of propaganda. The second US schools start teaching about
    black people in other countries, African American youths are going to
    start asking questions. And they'll find out about the struggle of black
    and working class people all over the globe.



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