RE: [acid-jazz] Justin and Motown 45

From: Droski, M. Ted (Ted.Droski_at_visiting-nurse.org)
Date: 2004-02-21 21:14:19

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    ...I'd go so far as to say this is an American epidemic that affects all
    American cultures. Almost every aspect of what used to be considered
    American culture is gone, it's all homogenized for consumption.
    Everything is sterile and has little substance.

    The Mom and Pop restaurants have gone away and are replaced by
    McDonalds, and the McDonalds in Detroit is the same as the McDonalds in
    Miami...and so is the Wal-Mart, Target, GAP, Old Navy and Costco.

    There is little regional flavor to anything because it's too hard for
    multi national corps to market a variety of products/services to a
    variety of markets, better to make everyone the same and have them all
    consume the same things.

    I am 1/2 Syrian (3rd generation out) 1/2 polish, but sadly have no ties
    to my any of my heritage, I'm just an Uh-meri-ken. I think 1st and 2nd
    generation immigrants wanted their children to assimilate into American
    society, which might have been right at the time, but a great cultural
    disservice was done. And aside from early immigrants, I feel like ALL
    Americans in general have just all been assimilated into a bland culture
    from 1960 to present.

    It's a hard slope to come back from, all peoples need to have a history.
    I am slowly trying to regain some of my cultural identity, I haven't
    gone so far as to do those genealogy things, but I need to know
    something, anything.

    You can't know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Bob Davis [mailto:earthjuice_at_prodigy.net]

    However it isn't really about the race of Justin Timberlake...

    It's a part of a continuing and sad story about a race of people who
    were once proud of their past, used it as a mechanism to inspire their
    children for the future, who have now become "comfortable" in watching
    their history, music, culture and identity being hijacked by profiteers
    disguised as TV producers.

    20 years from now, when the history of this period of time is written my
    sincere hope is that when black children read about it, they will hang
    their heads in shame and ask their parents...

    "what did YOU do to try and prevent this from happening..."

    (and that is my $0.02)