Azizi,

my foremost goal was to emphasize the fact that African Americans are not a monolithic people..... I opted for a teaching moment...

Azizi, particularly in a thread about the blues, and particularly at Mudcat-- do you really not know that this is probably the last group of people (in the last place) who need to be taught that???????

You have said that the blues is new to you..... I'm deeply sorry about that-- it's part of our shared American heritage, and I have often tried to imagine what it would be like to have not had that as a living part of my own life from early years on.

But it isn't new, to many of us, nor is the experience that gave birth to it. I would respectfully submit that the learning opportunity here may be yours. Again, take the best and leave the rest.

~Susan