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President Donald J. Trump Proclaims June 2018 as African-American Music Appreciation Month
The White House ^ | June 1, 2018 | DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted on 06/02/2018 9:01:44 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000

During African-American Music Appreciation Month, we celebrate the tremendous achievements and contributions of African-American musicians. The musical ingenuity of talented African American artists laid the foundation for so many recognizable and cherished genres of music, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, hip hop, and rap.

Throughout our history, African-American music has demonstrated its power to elicit comfort, healing, happiness, conviction, and inspiration — as well as its ability to unite people of all backgrounds. Today, it resonates in jazz quartets, rock and roll guitar solos, gospel choirs, and hip hop beats. The expression of these artistic and diverse styles of music acts as a voice for freedom, justice, love, and the pursuit of happiness.

African-American music has played a significant role in shaping the American dream and instilling a sense of pride in being an “American.” The talent and creativity of pioneers like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Etta James, Whitney Houston, and many others have indelibly enriched our culture and our lives. As Etta James noted, “I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.” Etta James recognized that the history and evolution of music in America reflects our country’s cultural uniqueness and our country’s commitment to protect and love every voice.

African-American music brings together people of all backgrounds — people who hum it, whistle it, and sing it — to enjoy blended tunes and hard-to-hit notes. Its contagious rhythm empowers its listeners to recall memories of the past and grow excited for the future. Our Nation is indebted to all the African-American artists whose music fills our airways and our homes, lifts our spirits, and compels us to think, dance, and sing. These musicians and their legacies ignite our imaginations and prove to us that the sky is the limit.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2018 as African-American Music Appreciation Month. I call upon public officials, educators, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs that raise awareness and appreciation of African-American music.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.

DONALD J. TRUMP


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; donaldtrump; june; music; rap; trump; whitehouse
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To: TaxPayer2000

What about Trans Music Appreciation Month ?? How bigoted not to include them.


41 posted on 06/02/2018 9:31:56 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Nothing proves that more than the excellent documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”. You can tell the respect white singer Joan Osborne shows for these men is genuine and real, this is how we all become truly colorblind, it’s about the music and the talented people who made it, no one cared what color their skin was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBzuNZ9DlnI

Those who talk about “transcending race” need to watch this, because this is what it looks like. Not what Obama, the NFL, and the race hustlers in the media and pop culture shove down our throats.


42 posted on 06/02/2018 9:33:08 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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The worlds bitches and hos can now be very proud


43 posted on 06/02/2018 9:36:02 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Agreed!

Gnarles Barkley “Crazy”-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tph_9OX_qqY

Difficult to find a quality video of this one on utube.


44 posted on 06/02/2018 9:36:16 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: kanawa

“empty”


45 posted on 06/02/2018 9:37:15 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

and does it without recognizing ramadan...


46 posted on 06/02/2018 9:37:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: chris37

And albinos are pink.


47 posted on 06/02/2018 9:39:24 AM PDT by abclily
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To: chris37

I had to go back and see if I spelled “empty” incorrectly. lol


48 posted on 06/02/2018 9:41:42 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Fresh Wind

Yes, you have a point about this political sleight of hand (as if AAs need a “music month” after 8 years of favoritism and “art elitism” at the White House and Kennedy center, etc in the artsy fartsy world of socialist/kenyan marxism): of absolute druggie/heroin rapper crap and a whole lot worse. Our President neatly avoids what obamaumao had which was LGBTQ/cis trans, bi Month of idiotic minority narcissism and mental illness.

June is the height of the Scots-Irish ancestry mountain string/bluegrass music festivals (through the summer, all over the country especially in the Allegheny, Appalachians, and mountains of the West. The real country music of the people who built the United States of America, and who also readily give recognition and credit to the joint labor of that endeavour (and their music shared-the Blues) the white and black slaves (indentured servants whose contracts were “extended” repeatedly once they arrived in the Colonies, or who were sentenced to “transportation” to the Colonies- meaning hard labor/prison for life). See the outstanding book: “White Cargo:The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America”

here and Amazon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2455819.White_Cargo

And for an excellent read from the oft maligned former Sen. James Webb (USNA): “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223428.Born_Fighting?ac=1&from_search=true

So we as a nation can finally put to bed the never ending— “only blacks were slaves” in the US. As well put to rest the fact that EVERY civilization— every one has experienced and practiced slavery (Vikings, Arabs, Africans, Indo-European, Slavic— the original slaves, Scandanavia, Ireland, UK, Spain, China, Mongolia, South Pacific, Denmark, Germany and the Semitic races inclusive of Ashkenazi and other Jews and Middle Eastern populations).


49 posted on 06/02/2018 9:41:53 AM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: rktman
"Caucasion music appreciation month" is...

Every Month

50 posted on 06/02/2018 9:43:37 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

So, the british invasion in the 60’s. Are some of the ar-teests being sued for cultural appropriation for remaking particular AA music? Or were they just using their white privilege to “take it”. ;-)


51 posted on 06/02/2018 9:46:11 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Wow. Only 10 months left and we’ll be celebrating African-Americans all year long.

I’m going to listen to some rap now, just to raise my cultural level.

/s


52 posted on 06/02/2018 9:47:40 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: TaxPayer2000

Etta James ‘At Last’ (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cbOl96RFM


53 posted on 06/02/2018 9:56:22 AM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: libh8er

Are those people who play country and western?


54 posted on 06/02/2018 9:57:48 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Good point. Maybe the President should have designated June as “African-American Homosexual Pride Month...”

The press would make themselves dizzy from trying to spin that...


55 posted on 06/02/2018 9:58:06 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Mears

Actually, BLTs are great—I would endorse National BLT Month!


56 posted on 06/02/2018 9:58:29 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: TaxPayer2000
Oh so He is setting up a competing month to LBGTQUERTY month.

This should be interesting. :)

57 posted on 06/02/2018 9:58:42 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: PTBAA
Are those people who play country and western?


58 posted on 06/02/2018 10:00:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Been listening to The Oldies this AM, as matter of fact And would agree with the “appreciation” In the 50s and 60s

http://www.doowopcafe.org
59 posted on 06/02/2018 10:01:40 AM PDT by RW_Whacko (RW_WHACKO)
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To: snarkpup
Whites who took the poll mostly voted for revolutionaries who invented new genres of music like Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix.

Now we all know where Chuck Berry got his inspiration from.....


60 posted on 06/02/2018 10:02:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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