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wigger thomas
01-06-2008, 03:09 AM
Here's what seems to be a little known fact:
The character Uncle Tom died from a beating he recieved while protecting 2 escaping slaves hiding above him in an attic. Sure made me think differantly about what an Uncle Tom is.

I'm not sure exactly how many people realize that my[regretable:o]screen name is a literary reference to a fantastic piece of American literature: 'Native Son' by Richard Wright. I believe it should be required reading in the USA. The book is set in Chicago and is about an anti hero that you can not love named 'Bigger Thomas'. You sure can feel his confused pain though. Oprah plays his mom in the 1987 movie version.

Another great book which I consider to be the polar opposite but almost as good is 'Invisable Man' by Ralph Elison[sp?]. About a talented student who starts in a southern college and winds up in NYC w/ Marcus Garvey types in Harlem. In the southern portion of the book,Booker T. Washington is satirized harshly.

Then there's the classics like 'Malcolm X' and 'Soul on Ice' Non-Fiction

I once got to meet Angela Davis. I had a cotton shirt that loooked like a prison shirt on. She looked at it funnny like she thought I was a crazy ex-con. But she signed my copy of "If They Come in the Morning"
This is an Obey Shepard depiction of Angela from back in the day. She had grey dreads when I met her.

Mo0se
01-06-2008, 11:08 AM
I get all the Black American Literature
I need from Mckinley Morganfield,
Sam Hopkins, and Riley B. King

wigger thomas
01-06-2008, 11:14 AM
I hear you. When I was 20 I saw a sax player at a jazz fest
blowing his brains out in a supr pissed off solo. I think it was the day I pretty much gave up on politics believe it or not. Nobody could say it better than he did.

I know I'm hijacking my own thread but,how about Jimi Hendrix as a blues player? Think nasty nasty Red House.
How 'bout Jimi Page on 'Since I been Loving You' ouch!

Mo0se
01-06-2008, 11:35 AM
If you can find it, check out Sam Hopkins
Black and Evil, and Mr. Charlie, and Trouble in Mind.

Mo0se
01-06-2008, 11:48 AM
I hear you. When I was 20 I saw a sax player at a jazz fest
blowing his brains out in a supr pissed off solo. I think it was the day I pretty much gave up on politics believe it or not. Nobody could say it better than he did.

I know I'm hijacking my own thread but,how about Jimi Hendrix as a blues player? Think nasty nasty Red House.
How 'bout Jimi Page on 'Since I been Loving You' ouch!

I have mucho respect for Jimi, but my heart belongs to clean tones and acoustic.

Simple is better.. for me anyhow. :)