Re: [Harp-L] what is ODBG ? (no harp content)

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On May 13, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Robert Koch free wrote:

> > I have a smile on my face too, Fernando... but I have  to agree  
> > with Tom.
> > ODBG "Old Dead Black Guys" and "Old Dead Blues Guys"  both sound a  
> > bit
> > ..."disrespectful" to me.
>
>   Since I (unwillingly) started this in a previous post to the  
> Iceman, let me make something clear to the list: I never intended  
> to be disrespectfull to any one, and certainly not to Afro American  
> blues artists, singers, musicians which I truley cherish and, for  
> some, worship for what the music they have given me.

Well, 'I' knew that. I know your posts/writings and they have always  
been above reproach.

>   I understand the acronym I used has made some of you raise their  
> eyebrows. I will not use it again.
>   That said, let's call a cat a cat. I don't mind if somebody calls  
> me an old white guy. Koz I'm becoming old (56), I am white and I'm  
> a guy. I would rather question somebody who would address me as a  
> "time challenged caucasian male".
>    Disrespect sometimes hides behind slick language.

You betcha. I happen to have a book sitting on my coffee table right  
now entitled "A Century of Jazz". It just so happens that if you leaf  
through the over inch thick ream of pages, you will count approx  
2/3rds (or more) of the entries/pictures/stories/clips/etc are about  
black musicians. Starting with minstrel, going through rag time,  
blues and dixieland. It isn't profiling, it's the law of averages.  
Most of the greats WERE black. Most were ALREADY old before I was  
even born (1942), and (unfortunately) most ALL  of them are now dead.

It stands to reason that inasmuch as you (being from Reuters) would  
have to/WANT to keep the highest standards and ideals of journalism,  
you really have no reason to cast aspersions at anyone, no matter  
what their ethnicity, creed, religion, culture.

Is it a fact (maybe disputable, maybe not) that black musicians of  
the past were the driving force behind American musics?. If one were  
to check MY particular tastes. one would find that, almost  
exclusively, I prefer to gravitate towards black singers and  
musicians. Excluding chromatic, of course, where I tend to favor the  
Jewish players.

smokey-joe...nuff said, I'm outa here. :)

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