I am a Queer Black disabled women who takes care of other black disabled family members. Me and my older sister are the only providers, we make 200 every two weeks and its not enough to pay bills or travel to work. You donating would help me and my sister get to work, support my family and help me continue to educate communities globally!
I’ve been educating, advocating and building a better environment for Black people and many different other communities for 7 Years now, that means I started when I was 14 years old going into high school. I don’t get paid to do so while I am happy educating and enjoy doing so, it would be nice to have some financial support on Juneteenth.
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Many good things came out of Black America’s growth and path to freedom and that is Music. Music that fills the ears of millions of races and ethnicities all over the world. Paving the way for many sub genres in didn’t cultures such as krap, chinese hip hop, indian pop and many more.
Black Americans have over 50 genres of cultured music they created through the pain they have suffered for many decades. Old negro spirituals that helped create country music, rock and roll that helped pave the way for neo soul rock and many, many more music genres such as house beats from black ballroom culture and EDM that has traces back to Jamaica and American black Jamaicans. Hip hop and rap being one of the most influential around the world created from old soul rock and jazz. One of the most remixed Soul performers today is James brown.
White America has taken control and erased the history of many black people that paved the way for the genre to thrive. Such as the genre of rock that was created by a black queer woman named Rosetta Tharpe. The creator and pioneer for rock and roll, however many will name and credit men like Elvis because of his power as a white man. Even though Elvis has created black culture for his dances, such as the “twist” and music that was written and produced by black men and women.
Today genres such as rock, pop, and country are not only seen as a “White genre” but a genre created by white people. While Rap, Hip Hop and R&B are seen as black genres for black people. However, many black people forget that those genres Rock, Pop (meaning popular music) and country are the reason why we have Rap and other Genres of music genres today.
Opinion and solution:
A solution that I have to the miseducation certain music genres is for the education system and the historical black schools (colleges and elementaries) to stop only teaching about Rap, Hip Hop and Jazz as if that’s the only genres we have in this culture. In elementary after I had transferred to an all black school in the South Bronx, I learned only that was we had created African Drums that helped build the genre of Jazz, that hip hop was created in south Bronx and Rap which included poetry, while the referenced men like Tupac and Langston Hughes. Growing up Me and other black children had a sense that Rap and H/H was a black thing and rock was white. Later on finding out that a black woman created the genre.
Though I believe they did a good job at teaching black history I still think what they taught was sugar coated and it’s not good enough. Colleges, teachers and historians refuse to actually dig deeper into the roots of black music (world wide not just American), West African culture and much more. I hate the fact that I had to find out by a white woman (whom I love to death) that rock and other genres were created by black people, which I would’ve never thought we could have ever created. I gives black children the sense that we can and are creators too.
Many black students especially from the hood have no idea that many hood black people have created and thrived. A lot like me who believed we would be nothing more than just project kids that will continue the path of “failure” with no knowledge on what happened to our mothers, fathers and grandparents.
Rosetta Tharpe
NOTE: Afro-latinx/Hispanic and black Caribbeans are included in black America. African American genres mentioned and included. Caribbean Africans also influenced other genres outside of America such as EDM and afro latin music.
