Black american appreciation thread
- Thread starter Lewis Black
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Ella Fitzgerald
there isn't a modern music genre that we didn't invent. 
Lewis Black
Superstar
We gave thanks to our african ancestors
We invented the architecture that modern computers are based on and UOENO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture
We invented the architecture that modern computers are based on and UOENO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture
Jesse Russell
Trajan
Veteran
I'm African but this is a powerful thread
AAs survived 400+ years away from the motherland....suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the white man but still here
AAs survived 400+ years away from the motherland....suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the white man but still here
Jerry Lawson
Herbie Hancock
Being the most hated while being the most imitated.
this is part of the next culture that will be stolen...if you pay attention they have already started playing our songs. We are the only people that have listening parties amongst bands while the crowd fills in below on the field. Its called "The 5th Quarter". The intelligent musicianship and style is critiqued
by a live audience and debated about for decades after the battle is said to be finished. in the next 10-15 years you will see Cac bands doing this same thing and acting like they invented it
Wayne Shorter
