Rare and very interesting photos

[blackpepper]

Much like CACs label Elvis as the King of Rock and Roll, they gave all the props to Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly for tap dancing.

The Nicholas Bros. met Fred when they were still teens and showed him a thing or two. Black folks saw Irish folks clogging all stiff and rigid and turned it into something so much more rhythmic and fluid. We took that shit to the next level, seasoned it and gave it flavor and CACs tried to claim it.



Gene Kelly using them like Rock/Pop groups use black background singers to achieve a soulful sound, etc.



Those brothers were about the best to ever do it.

Oh course, and this happened over and over. So much so, that it was a well know fact that one way to make it early on in America, was to find something that a black person excelled at, copy their concept and sell it to white people.

 

[Stop these faggits!]

Much like CACs label Elvis as the King of Rock and Roll, they gave all the props to Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly for tap dancing.

The Nicholas Bros. met Fred when they were still teens and showed him a thing or two. Black folks saw Irish folks clogging all stiff and rigid and turned it into something so much more rhythmic and fluid. We took that shit to the next level, seasoned it and gave it flavor and CACs tried to claim it.



Gene Kelly using them like Rock/Pop groups use black background singers to achieve a soulful sound, etc.



Those brothers were about the best to ever do it.

Tap has roots in Africa and not from clogging

 

[Shaka54]

Tap has roots in Africa and not from clogging

I did not know that! I thought it was from being in close proximity to Scot-Irish indentured servants. You learn something new every day.

 

[Casca]

Picture of an Old Woman from the Turkana Tribe. The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, they migrated from Southern Sudan and settled at Turkana river, where they take care of their livestock.

 

[LongLocs85]

Oh course, and this happened over and over. So much so, that it was a well know fact that one way to make it early on in America, was to find something that a black person excelled at, copy their concept and sell it to white people.

Not sure if you watch(ed) The Office, but Dwight actually had a line that talked about that very concept...

 

[darth frosty]

 

[Casca]

 

[TENT]

Exactly. I am reading this niggas words like "what the fuck is happening"!!

Niggas be pathological sometimes.

Tap has roots in Africa and not from clogging

 

[Casca]

On this day: Billie Holiday recorded what is thought to be the first Civil Rights song, Strange Fruit (1939)

Strange Fruit - written and composed by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

You can hear the amazing and moving song here:

Holiday first performed the song at Café Society in 1939. She said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances.

Because of the power of the song, the cafe owner drew up some rules: Holiday would close with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore.

 

[Shaka54]

Exactly. I am reading this niggas words like "what the fuck is happening"!!

Niggas be pathological sometimes.

And some niggas be pathological all the time. Yes, I'm looking at YOU, the consummate know it all.

I make a mistake or take a misstep and acknowledge it. Your ass is known to quadruple down on some shit when a muhfucka corrects you or offers a different opinion.

If you were following that exchange properly, there was absolutely no need for you to chime in at all. Stand on your own. Don't be out here lowkey looking for allies.

 

[TENT]

I aint a know it all. I am mad dumb my nigga.

Calm down sweetheart.

It aint that serious.

You could have just laughed and kept it moving. No need to comment.

And some niggas be pathological all the time. Yes, I'm looking at YOU, the consummate know it all.

I make a mistake or take a misstep and acknowledge it. Your ass is known to quadruple down on some shit when a muhfucka corrects you or offers a different opinion.

If you were following that exchange properly, there was absolutely no need for you to chime in at all. Stand on your own. Don't be out here lowkey looking for allies.

 

[kes1111]

President Gerald Ford greets Allen Coage (Bad News Allen/Brown) at the White House, Coage wrestled mostly with the WWF & Stampede Wrestling. He won a bronze medal in heavyweight judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

 

[blackpepper]

Imagine the challenges this man faced to serve our country with such profound distinction.
---
A century after his death, the first Black US Army colonel is promoted to brigadier general

This photograph shows Major Charles Young, who served in the US Army and was the third African American to graduate from West Point and first to become a colonel. On Friday, April 29, he was posthumously promoted to retroactively become the US Army's first brigadier general.

Charles Young, the first Black US Army colonel whose groundbreaking military career was hampered a century ago by the racism of the era, was posthumously promoted on Friday to brigadier general.

Young's promotion retroactively makes him the first Black American recognized with that rank, the Army said. The honorary designation, following years of efforts to posthumously promote him, was the focus of an official promotion ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Friday.

After Young was passed over for promotion before his death in 1922, a Black service member wouldn't join the general officers rank in the Army until Benjamin Davis Sr. was promoted to brigadier general in 1940.


Racism blocked Young's career path

Born in 1864 in May's Lick, Kentucky, to enslaved parents, Young graduated from high school with honors and became an elementary school teacher for two years. After encouragement from his father, Young took entrance exams for West Point but was not selected to attend despite having the second highest score. It wasn't until a candidate dropped out the following year that Young received his acceptance letter and became the ninth Black attendee of the academy in 1884. During his time at the academy, he faced racism from instructors and fellow cadets but persevered. In 1889, he became the third Black graduate from the academy following Henry Ossian Flipper and John Hanks Alexander.

After graduating from the academy, it was three months before he received an assignment because at the time, Black officers were not allowed to command White troops, according to his National Park Service biography. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned to the Ninth Cavalry in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and Fort Duchesne, Utah, a regiment of the "Buffalo Soldiers." The Buffalo Soldiers were regiments of Black soldiers who played a key role in the US' expansion of the West and were initially commanded by White officers. They also served as some of the first national park rangers and protected parks from poachers.

Young would break another barrier in 1903 when he became the first Black national park superintendent after he and his troops were assigned to manage Sequoia National Park in northern California. He was the first Black military attaché, became the first military attaché to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola in 1904, and was appointed military attaché to Liberia in 1912. He also taught military sciences and tactics at Wilberforce University in Ohio in between his military duties.

 

[darth frosty]

VINTAGE: A seven year old Gladys
Knight performs on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour show in 1951. She would go on to win the grand prize beating out kids 3 times her age. Shortly after that, in 1952, her mother Elizabeth Knight created a group consisting of Gladys, her brother Bubba, her sister Brenda and her cousins William and Eleanor Guest, and called themselves the Pips in honor of their cousin/manager, James "Pip” Woods.

 

[Casca]

A young Chris Rock (1975)

 

[blackpepper]

When I saw her, I immediately thought that woman aint white.
---
The woman behind the world's most famous tarot deck.

.... Smith was a fascinating but mysterious figure -- a mystic who was part of the secret occultist society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which borrowed ideas from Kabbalah and freemasonry for its own spiritual belief system centered on magic and metaphysics. Born to American parents in London, Smith spent a period of her childhood in Jamaica and styled herself in West Indies fashion, leading to conflicting reports over whether or not she was biracial. She has also been cast as a cult queer icon because she shared a home with a female companion and business partner named Nora Lake for many years -- though Haskell says its "unclear" whether their relationship was romantic. ...

 

[Casca]

The quartzite sarcophagus in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. The winged arms of goddess Isis and Nephthys are outstretched to envelop the basin in a protective embrace. Photo: Harry Burton, 1923

 

[Casca]

This man has his carpentry tools and is showing off he is a skilled craftsman. Maybe his grandkids with him? photo was taken in Los Angeles, California, circa 1920s.

 

[Casca]

This woman’s portrait was taken by Gainesville, GA photographer Nathan C. White, circa 1901-1910.

 

[Casca]

This woman’s photo was taken by William Bullard. She has not been identified yet, Photo likely taken late 1890s to early 1900s.

 

[Casca]

Portrait of a boy sitting in grass, circa 1904

 

[Casca]

68 years ago today Brown V. Board of Education ended segregation in US schools.

 

[Casca]

James Earl Jones, with father Robert Earl Jones and son Flynn Earl Jones at home, NYC, 1987

 

[World B Free]

A young Chris Rock (1975)

I wonder who slapped him at recess.

 

[World B Free]

James Earl Jones, with father Robert Earl Jones and son Flynn Earl Jones at home, NYC, 1987

And Flynn Earl Jones:

 

[Casca]

A 1910 photo of a truck driver.This truck driver’s photo was taken in 1910. Location unknown.

 

[Z MONSTER]

I can remember relatives and family friends returning from Nam as addicts. My mother blasted this dude named James with a shotgun as he shattered a window and was trying to climb through it. She blinded him.

Many years later, after he was released from prison, we'd run into him living next door to some cousins of ours, and him and my mother discussed what had happened with a lot of sorrow. He didn't hold it against my mom for doing what she had to do to protect her household. He was strung out and was looking for a fix.

This was when I was in the first or second grade but I remember when the fellas in our town were getting drafted, were gone, and how they were when they returned IF they returned.

There is a Veteran's Memorial in Tiptonville, TN with pavers engraved with the names of all who served/KIA from that town. Me, three of my siblings, and an Uncle are all represented there.
Everyone was Air Force but me and they never let me forget it. My family be like, "Tell me you were stupid without telling me you were stupid."

I rememer there were hospitals called recooporation in the 70's for junkies. My uncle was in Nam at it worst 65-66. He seen some shit and almost got killed a few times. When he got back he was a textbook junkie. RIP to him.

 

[Shaka54]

I rememer there were hospitals called recooporation in the 70's for junkies. My uncle was in Nam at it worst 65-66. He seen some shit and almost got killed a few times. When he got back he was a textbook junkie. RIP to him.

RIP Unc.

 

[HNIC]

And Flynn Earl Jones:

Mission accomplished the family is officially white and all of their money will be in white hands.

 

[saundman]

Long hair .....But that ass tho

 

[Bury1]

First Army! I was in First Army when I retired from the Army.

Div west when I retired.

 

[Shaka54]

Div west when I retired.

I was in Div West also. Small world.

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

On this day: Billie Holiday recorded what is thought to be the first Civil Rights song, Strange Fruit (1939)

Strange Fruit - written and composed by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

You can hear the amazing and moving song here:

Holiday first performed the song at Café Society in 1939. She said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances.

Because of the power of the song, the cafe owner drew up some rules: Holiday would close with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore.

A Cac wrote it?

 

[Stop these faggits!]

A Cac wrote it?

Where in the description does it say a cac wrote it? What drew you to that conclusion dummy?

 

[kes1111]

A Cac wrote it?

Where in the description does it say a cac wrote it? What drew you to that conclusion dummy?