Posted on 02/26/2020 11:39:34 AM PST by Michael.SF.
Yes, yes. That's all well and good.
But did your dog die?
Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water
Who’s that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God’s gonna trouble the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God’s gonna trouble the water
Who’s that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God’s gonna trouble the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God’s gonna trouble the water
Who’s that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that’s coming through,
God’s gonna trouble the water, yeah
Wade in the water,…
...I agree that whites should give up rap entirely.
If rap were to disappear from the face of this Earth,
in all it’s forms, including Ghetto Porn,
I would not shed a tear.
That is a race neutral position
Negro spirituals are for blacks only now. How racist.
But for Blacks to grab Hamilton and Little Orphan Annie is OK. ?
People love those songs because they are some very beautiful songs.
If they are spiritual songs, they were always Gods songs before any one ever sung a single one of them.
SJW=NAZI
Yeah, I went there.
This stuff has to end.
I am so sick of this ridiculous victim status, blatant racism, and utter stupidity! The only proper response to the asinine triggering complaint starts with the letters
S T F U.
Peach
Or how about the white kid from South Africa who won some sort of Black History Month award at a US high school and all the usual suspects had a melt down?
Peach
Oh no! Can we still eat BBQ, fried chicken and catfish? Is that ok?
Well, Afro-Americans had better limit themselves to only an African lifestyle, to only things historically African.
Invented by whiteys? Get rid of it. Now!
I am so damn sick of all the black racists...
He said “negro” in the article. I thought that was the “n” word?
Democrats are evil.
No one knows who wrote the song or when it was done. It first received notoriety when it was first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1901, 35 years after the end of the civil war by John Wesley Work II. It is one of the songs featured in Alvin Ailey’s 1960 signature ballet, Revelations, and an instrumental hit in 1966 for the Ramsey Lewis Trio, which prompted further instrumental recordings by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Billy Preston in 1967. The first commercially recorded version of the song was released by Paramount Records (sung by Sunset Four Jubilee Singers in 1925), as “Good News Chariot’s Coming and Wade in the Water”. It is just a song, but it has further meaning that was established prior to it being used as part of the movement of the underground railroad.
The song relates to both the Old and New Testaments. The verses reflect the Israelites’ escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus 14. The chorus refers to healing: see John 5:4, “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”
It may have been used for the purpose of assisting the slave through the underground railroad, but it was something else first and cannot be captured and kept. It can only be borrowed. The Black Student Union needs to be more mature.
rwood
I had a black music teacher at an extremely white rural school. We were racist and ignorant. He was well educated and patient. He very stealthy taught us Negro spirituals. He put on a Christmas musical that brought the entire high school to its feet and cheering.
Somehow he also introduced us to classical music, and funk!
I didn’t realize until years later how hard it must have been for him and how lucky we were to have him.
No one knows who wrote the song or when it was done. It first received notoriety when it was first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1901, 35 years after he end of the civil war by John Wesley Work II. It is one of the songs featured in Alvin Ailey’s 1960 signature ballet, Revelations, and an instrumental hit in 1966 for the Ramsey Lewis Trio, which prompted further instrumental recordings by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Billy Preston in 1967. The first commercially recorded version of the song was released by Paramount Records (sung by Sunset Four Jubilee Singers in 1925), as “Good News Chariot’s Coming and Wade in the Water”. It is just a song, but it has further meaning that was established prior to it being used as part of the movement of the underground railroad.
The song relates to both the Old and New Testaments. The verses reflect the Israelites’ escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus 14. The chorus refers to healing: see John 5:4, “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”
It may have been used for the purpose of assisting the slave through the underground railroad, but it was something else first and cannot be captured and kept. It can only be borrowed. The Black Student Union needs to be more mature.
rwood
Y'all left out watermelon
Using this logic, white people should avoid all black run businesses too.
Let’s convene a government commission to divide everything in the country along racial lines and make it unlawful and punishable by jail time to commit racial appropriation. I think Black racist would find they would be living in a very empty world, but at least they wouldn’t need to worry about anything.
Let’em go. They (black folk) are going to hang themselves ultimately with their stupid demands.
And *Amazing Grace* was written by a former slave trader, at that.
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