I've been mercilessly
skewered.
But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white people believe that they prefer listening to jazz over watching television. This is not true. Every few a months, a white person will put on some Jazz and pour themselves a glass of wine or scotch and tell themselves how nice it is. Then they will get bored and watch television or write emails to other white people about how nice it was to listen to Jazz at home. "Last night, I poured myself a glass of Shiraz and put Charlie Parker on the Bose. It was so relaxing, I wish I had a fireplace."
I considered digging through the backlog of my blog and citing examples of the above, but the exercise would simply be too humiliating. Also:
Along with Jazz, white people have also taken quite a shine to The Blues, an art form that captured the pain of the black experience in America. Then, in the 1960s, a bunch of British bands started to play their own version of the music and white people have been loving it ever since. It makes sense considering that the British were the ones who created The Blues in the 17th Century.
Likewise, all over my blog. Can I help it that Bruce/Clapton/Baker tore it up?
7 comments:
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
See, she knows it's true.
Maybe the white dude/dudette who writes things white people like should go back to school and learn how to write better. For example, his first sentence is "...the final stage is never reached because white people are work tirelessly to keep it alive." Something is amiss. I would think with the number of hits his/her site has had it would have hirer standards for publication, or at least get an editor.
Hahaha! JB, you've fallen right into the trap!
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"I would think with the number of hits his/her site has had it would have hirer standards for publication, or at least get an editor."
Must be those hirer standards that I didn't learn in school. All these years I thought it was spelled "higher". Guess I have a lot to learn.
Sorry, JP, I couldn't help it! It was only because of the sentence in which it was located! :D
And there Debtoneufer illustrates the white people's love of irony.
whoa, a strange mix of people joking and other people being really serious. it is causing inner conflict just reading it.
i like jazz and scotch and i listened to the beatles today...and i loved this post.
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