One of the primary reasons I miss being in the classroom. Music is the perfect tool to pair with any history lesson.
I always identified with these people because this was my experience down in Hawkinsville, Jawga! The closest I have ever been to slavery without actually being sold on an action block.
I was only eight but I churned butter! Drew water from a well. Admired the newspaper print plastered on the walls to keep the "hawk" out. Saw their,( the colored people I shared the porch with), demeanor's totally change any time any one or anything "white" was near.
All "whites" and all forms of "white culture" were downers. "Whiteness" represented stiffness, artificial-ality (as in reality), phoniness, stoic-ness, hold it all in! Take it to your grave, pretend it never happened, keep up appearances no matter how much you ache.
"Blackness" meant let it all hang out! Get loose! No, not quite loose as a goose. But relax! You don't have to speak properly , clearly ARTICULATE EACH AND EVERY SYL-LA-BILE like you are slow to comprehend.
(Scientific fact; It takes a quick mind to pick up on any dialect or corrupted language.)
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