Re: Redlining

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>(Let me add that remailers are great.  I would be reluctant to express
>these ideas in any other way for professional reasons.)

hehehe.

>(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
>and listen to it carefully about 20 times.  There are layers and

And what was it that Bird's contemporary society called him?  Was it crazy?
 This is one of the social ills potentially caused by discrimination.  Far
more important to me than the politics of any time is the music that a time
period presents.  But this visionary jazz musician was all but discredited
by the musical environment of the times.  Thankfully, it survived on its
merits.  But imagine if the campaign to discredit Coltrane had been
successful and my young ears never experienced that beauty.  That is part
of the potential harm I am talking about.

>At any rate, those who wish to enlighten their fellows on the subject
>of racism can do better than "it's just wrong."

Many of us take many different routes.  Most of us fill our days taking
action and have precious little time to enlighten people other than those
they encounter daily.

>
>Red Rackham
>

Matt


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Matthew J. Miszewski wrote:
> >(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
> >and listen to it carefully about 20 times.  There are layers and

I have a very intelligent friend who loves jazz and has several thousand
LP's; he says Coltrane did some really good stuff early on, then went
kinda crazy...  I bought some 'trane albums in the 1960's.  My impression
was that they were very intellectual, or very technical, but not highly
musical (my opinion, and I love music).

[snip]

BTW, the person who claimed that Jazz was the more significant contribution
of African-Americans in America is very short-sighted.

Jazz is just one expression of a highly intelligent and complex group
of people.  You should hear some of the gorgeous songs of South Africa
as sung by Miriam Makeba, for instance.  Also, rock-n-roll emerged from
blues, R&B, etc., and is profoundly dominant in Western culture over all
other types of music, regardless of what you think of its quality.