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Thread #76372   Message #1374184
Posted By: GUEST,guest
07-Jan-05 - 07:59 PM
Thread Name: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Subject: RE: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Well what can i say I have browsed the comments with interest. Greg yer the man! teach me the guitar please.... Shambles I truely understand what you are saying, but hey sometimes some people need a bit longer to follow the path yer following! but I love your honesty and consistency. And more importantly to me I love a pint and pie with you sometime?
Corney as it may sound on the net but "has a Black man" I think, no I know, it is time we stopped the poor Blackman stuff, yes we is poor as are many white 'folk' but we is also developing and economically moving into an era where we can assist and support not only ourselves but also encourage others "Black and White' to shift themselves out of the mire.

Yeh I know initially not everyone can do it it but even if a sizeble number can, over the decade or so then hopefully we can have a greater impact on other countries economic and social development.   It does not have to be left to the 'old guard' such as Mr Burke to shape the world Mr Paine got it right when he commented "(in The Rights of Man)

"They learn it from the governments they live under: and retaliate the punishments they have been accustomed to behold. The heads stuck on spikes, which remained for years upon Temple bar, differed nothing in the horror of the scene from those carried about upon spikes at Paris; yet this was done by the English Government. It may perhaps be said that it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts, and in either case it instructs them how to punish when power falls into their hands.

Lay the axe to the root and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. In England the punishment in certain cases is by hanging, drawing and quartering; the heart of the sufferer is cut out and held up to the view of the populace"   11/09/1789 200 years ago is not that long in our history.   

My friends great grandparents were slaves in the good old folk/bluesy US of A. And as my nans family where from Ireland and my granddads family where from Eygpt they were all as good as indentured peeps....   so 'times are definately changing' albeit slowly,
( in the grand scheme of things)         

are you all still awake!

Bye