Re: You Guys Oughta Stick To Doo-Wop

Date: 5 Jul 2003 20:31:11 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s
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Dean has openly admitted that he gravitated toward soul music as a
means of combatting the racism that his father had instilled in him
from an early age (and, most likely, as a means of alleviating his
guilt over his consequently bigoted youth).
Dean has therefore transformed music -- which the majority of us
listen to solely for enjoyment -- into a racial battleground. Each
time Dean shouts "racist" at a member of this group, he is refighting
the Meathead-Bunker battles with his father that he waged a quarter of
a century ago.
The obvious inference to draw from this would be that Dean has yet to
vanquish his father's ghost: that is, he has not completely eradicated
the negative results of his racist upbringing from his psyche.
Deenie, while I wish you all the luck in overcoming your
emotional/psychological problems, I wish you would find some other
means of doing so than by projecting your father's face onto the
members of this group who don't belive that soul music is some
magical panacea to racial strife.
Most of us don't care how much pigmentation a musician has in his/her
skin. And, as you should've recognized by now from many of the past
threads, a lot of times we may not even *know* what racial category
our favorite singers fall under.
Publicly accusing people of being "cross burners" because they refuse
to apply your racial standards to their appreciation of a song is
utterly beneath contempt.
Music is sound, Deenie. Can you tell me what's the color of a
soundwave?