It’s a White Thing

David hits a good note on this. Another take is the one gleaned from a generation of white boy rock and rollers who were influenced by the black blues man Jimmy Reed. Their oral histories are here: http://www.joenickp.com/music/jimmyreed.html ps to Honest Joe: did you know Mance Lipscomb played a Fender Telecaster when Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records "discovered" him? Strachwitz put an acoustic in Mance's hands because that's what folk musicians were supposed to play/

Nice piece. It's good to question our view of others. Until you live it, you really don't know.
All we can do is interpret it from our preconceived distorted colored perceptions.

A wonderful piece of writing that makes me want to read those books. I once spent an afternoon with Mance Lipscomb, and I've often wondered what he really thought of all the white kids who flocked around him after a lifetime of enduring racism and sharecropping, which he called just another form of slavery.

Blues is the language of a state of mind. Poverty, oppression, unheard protests for equal participation... Hear it today among black or white but mostly poor anywhere life is cheap and society would rather the poor just die. .