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Salon: Detroit is Bankrupt Because Racists Like Sean Hannity Hate Motown Music
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Posted on 08/02/2013 6:41:08 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
I grew up with Motown and have a rather large collection of the stuff. In fact, I can synch with most songs, even in falsetto, and can kick-ass with finger snaps and back-up motions. That said, I am a racist by WH and race monger definitions.
Who am I?
To: chessplayer; Revolting cat!
One of the musicians behind Motown's sound.
To: chris37
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:13:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: IrishBrigade
I am Scots-Irish and I like Hannity, sometimes.
I also like some of the Motown music.
The author of this tripe is just another lib loon. I don’t know how some of these fools keep from drooling themselves dry.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:14:57 PM PDT
by
Gator113
To: chessplayer
Big Media squeezed out “independents” like Motown (moved it to LA then it got swallowed up by MCA) and Imperial, Ace, and other legendary local labels (Stax in Memphis, Chess in Chicago).
And with the big players being the only game in the media world (they effectively block any startup outsiders out of radio, television, magazine covers, film soundtracks, etc.) those young entrepreneurs who establish powerhouse local businesses heard around the world never get exposure.
Jack White/The White Stripes got mainstream exposure (he was out of Detroit as well) when Virgin reissued his independent catalog (released by Sympathy For The Record Industry on a handshake, no contract) and added the "hit single" to the reissue version of the LP.
Sympathy wasn't even small town, it was an LA label but still outsider.
To: chessplayer
As centers of African-American cultural and political power and engines of a worldwide multiracial pop culture that was egalitarian, hedonistic and anti-authoritarian, these cities posed a psychic threat to the most reactionary and racist strains in American life. REV. SHARPTON: COMMITTED OF MAKING SENSE. OF AND BY TO THE SENSELESS. MUCH.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:18:07 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
To: chessplayer
I think the real music left Detroit on purpose. Its what they turned it into, and if Hannity doesn’t like today’s what passes as music, he can join millions of others. To me Rap is Crap and annoying. Give me back the Ink Spots and the Temptations.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:19:45 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Remember Ty Woods? Glenn Doherty ? Forgot already?)
To: chessplayer
“... these cities posed a psychic threat to the most reactionary and racist strains in American life...”
That is just BS, pure and simple. Anyone who would say that is mentally lacking.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:21:01 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: chessplayer
No mention of Memphis. As the song (not from any of those cities) goes, I guess two out of three ain’t bad.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:22:07 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: chessplayer
One could plot Detroit’s rise and fall through its music. Motown was definitely the peak, then a long downhill slide into rap. The musical eras coincide pretty well with peak and decline of the culture.
To: chessplayer
"As centers of African-American cultural and political power and engines of a worldwide multiracial pop culture that was egalitarian, hedonistic and anti-authoritarian, these cities posed a psychic threat to the most reactionary and racist strains in American life. I mean the strain represented by Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (imagine what hed have to say about New Orleans jazz) or by the slightly more coded racism of Sean Hannity today."
As a kid, my favorite musicians were The Animals, The Rolling Stones, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, The Doors, The Ronettes, and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others. Most of these acts were "hedonistic" and "anti-authoritarian," and were either black or heavily influenced by black music. I don't even know what this moron means by "egalitarian" in music, and he probably doesn't either. He's just full of crap.
To: cripplecreek
Alright, lemme give these a listen.
Also, I do not even know if the songs that I listed are actually Motown or not. I just kind of refer to all older black music as Motown, out of sheer ignorance on my part, but there is some very, very good music from that period of time.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:25:51 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: chessplayer
"Im not exempting the Democratic political class of those cities from responsibility. Speaking broadly, those in city government there inherited an unsustainable situation in a downward-trending economy, pursued their own short-term objectives and only made things worse."Apparently Sean Hannity's imagined demonic powers are far more powerful than the actual processes and motivations he documents himself here.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:27:46 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: chessplayer
I’ve said this a hundred times on here, but it bears repeating:
“Just when you think the left can’t get any stupider . . . “
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:32:16 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(LEAVE THE ZIMMERMANS ALONE . . . NOT guilty . . .you LOST Now SHUT UP)
To: chessplayer
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:35:27 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: cripplecreek
Damn I really enjoyed both of those tunes. That was some really good American flavor right there.
Thank you kindly for the links, cripplecreek^^
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:35:28 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: All
these people drive around in their foreign cars claiming to support American labor and blame the people that work and purchase US made products for the problems facing the city they ran into bankruptcy.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:37:40 PM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: chessplayer
Andrew OHehir - film critic
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:38:25 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: musicman
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:42:25 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: chris37
Uncle Kracker was on FOX and Friends this morning and Geraldo couldn’t resist commenting on the “unfortunate” name Kracker chose. UK said that its been “hard in the yard” for a long time in Detroit and everybody knew this bankruptcy was coming some day.
Kid Rock’s born free video sparked a mini tourism boom where he filmed the beach and cliff scenes in the upper peninsula.
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posted on
08/02/2013 7:43:00 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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