If its that distasteful to you, maybe there would be something else to watch?
Here's my point.......if you're going to go to the trouble and expense of telling the history of something, then just be honest about it. Instead, they have to be politically correct and make sure that the White man is portrayed as being unable to invent a form of music without the help of a damned Negro. I will guaradamntee you that if Ken Burns and PBS did a special on the history of the blues or jazz, there wouldn't be a White face shown.
That's why I'm criticizing it. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and not injecting race into it. If Ken Burns and PBS ever get around to making a special about NASCAR, you can bet that instead of it's roots being in the moonshine running business, we'll be told that it started when some Black guy was trying to make his car go faster so he could outrun the KKK.
"Here's my point.......if you're going to go to the trouble and expense of telling the history of something, then just be honest about it. Instead, they have to be politically correct and make sure that the White man is portrayed as being unable to invent a form of music without the help of a damned Negro. I will guaradamntee you that if Ken Burns and PBS did a special on the history of the blues or jazz, there wouldn't be a White face shown.
That's why I'm criticizing it. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and not injecting race into it. If Ken Burns and PBS ever get around to making a special about NASCAR, you can bet that instead of it's roots being in the moonshine running business, we'll be told that it started when some Black guy was trying to make his car go faster so he could outrun the KKK."
Well put jamesjr. I tuned in the first night and right away was informed that, basically country fans were racists for not giving due credit to negros. I am so sick of PC crap on PBS, that I just changed the channel.
Now I watched the Civil War documentary 30 years ago and it was very good. I may tune in on the next episode of the Country documentary, to see if PBS can go five minutes without injecting PC politics into this story.
Along those lines, another thread discusses the death of Cokie Roberts. I used to listen to NPR about 3 hours a day, back in the seventies ane eighties. They were pretty objective back then, rather like CNN was. But NPR is obsessed with hatred of President Trump. You can't go 5 minutes on NPR without some reference to what a monster Trump is. I haven't listened to an entire story on NPR in ten years.
Thanks for the correction. It's amusing, looking at the opinions of all these people who have no idea about the inner workings of the music business in Nashville. I could print out this thread and grind it up, and have some very good fertilizer for my garden! Jerry
It's always like that. Wait till someone from Kuscinski, Idaho tries to tell you that 1 million 6th grade dropout/unemployed ghetto negroes in your city isn't any contributing factor to crime.
Have watched the series so far and enjoyed it all. I am a big country fan an appreciate the history, and enjoyed the music. Jimmy Rogers was really good.
There is no denying a black connection to many forms of music, even country.
Nobody is going to tell me that black folks showed up in America with a saxophone or a trumpet in their hand, knowing how to sing spirituals in English. You think a documentary about the blues or jazz is going to include all the Anglo influences?? Nope.
I’m all for “credit where credit is due”, but document the history. Don’t try to CHANGE it...
Nobody is going to tell me that black folks showed up in America with a saxophone or a trumpet in their hand, knowing how to sing spirituals in English. You think a documentary about the blues or jazz is going to include all the Anglo influences?? Nope.
I’m all for “credit where credit is due”, but document the history. Don’t try to CHANGE it...
There’s a hateful and bitter crowd hangs around this fire
Nobody is going to tell me that black folks showed up in America with a saxophone or a trumpet in their hand, knowing how to sing spirituals in English. You think a documentary about the blues or jazz is going to include all the Anglo influences?? Nope.
I’m all for “credit where credit is due”, but document the history. Don’t try to CHANGE it...
There’s a hateful and bitter crowd hangs around this fire
I watched some of it last night. Hearing Cousin Minnie Pearl with that "Howdeee" sure brought back a lot of good memories. At 52 years old, I think I'm in the last age group to really experience Country music before it's corruption. We used to watch the Porter Wagoner Show every week, Jim and Jesse had a tv show, Hee Haw every Saturday night.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
