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Originally Posted by dannic  "They never mentioned how he was the first black whose music went mainstream" THATS how race gets brought in... The first black who did this, who did that, who said this, who said that...
Why cant it be that he was an amazing musician?? Not taht I agree with that statement however WHY does the word BLACK have to be anywhere?? |
We have a very lengthy history of discrimination in this country. I think that the reason his music went mainstream is that he was such an enormous talent.