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James Brownian Motion

Buy this CD at Amazon.com!The African innovation that provides the life support for American “popular” music and puts food on the table for ironically racist entertainment lawyers, accountants, bankers, House of Blues executives, Ticketmaster human resources vice presidents, and at least one guy that mowed the lawn for Nat King Cole, provided a ‘Rock und Roll’ (say those words in a fake German accent) experience for European war babies representing every major ethnic group. But do we dare ask, what about Asians? Was there anyone of Asian descent at the heart of rock roll? Do we look at Don Ho or do we look deeper?

In order to go deeper here in the rasx() context, you are going to have to travel across the ancient land bridge between Asia and North America. You are going to have to take a photograph of Sitting Bull of the Lakota People and one of James Brown and let the scales fall from your eyes. You are going to have ask yourself, why was James Brown doing all that “whooping and hollering”—such that it even made other Black people (like my father) feel uncomfortable? You are going to have to do a DJ remix of Custer’s last stand at Little Big Horn and listen to the “whooping and hollering” and see what your trained ears come up with… Was it Chris Rock or one of the Wayans Brothers that compared the elder James Brown to an “old Chinese woman”? Here in the rasx() context, this is no joke.

Here in the rasx() context when you mix ancient Asia and ancient Africa in European-controlled North America, you can get James Brown. Sorry kids, Tiger Woods is not your father’s James Brown. Here in the kinté space, we celebrate James Brown with a little song called “Brownian Motion.” Look for it here.

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