couw Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 heheheh, I fooled you all! I actually live in a secret hide out very close by your place. Be afraid, be very afraid.... (cue Vincent Price laugh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 FWIW, I'm the same color as the peachy-lookin' background on the board here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 BTW, is Jackie McLean...... uhhhh, never mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 I am not sure that I completely understand... the somewhat negative responses to the thread by some... I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape when this question is asked. I dont get why people are taking so much offense to this thread. The man just aked if any brothers in the house. Me four... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 heheheh, I fooled you all! I actually live in a secret hide out very close by your place. Be afraid, be very afraid.... (cue Vincent Price laugh) Oh, I always thought Mr.Owl lived in that hole across the way... one of my many clever disguises: OWL MAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Who cares? Would it change anything if we knew who was what? What if it actually did?! My friend from Kurdistan calls me "bra", which means brother in his language. On the other hand, he doesn't like Arabs ... this won't lead us anywhere. I find it more thrilling to not know what race or whatever you call it the others are. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleM Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Oh, I think that was only a play on words, with the brother marrying the sister, and the taboo and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 I didn't find the question offensive, just silly. If you have to ask..... ...besides, would you read posts differently if you knew the poster's ancestry? Have you not learned that all black people do not think alike any more than all whites, Arabs, Asians, etc. do. I repeat... silly question, IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Well, if you go by the old southern "one drop of blood" bit, I'm Black. On the other hand, appearance wise, I make a Scandinavian like Chris look African. (Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme!) Plus I was raised with no knowledge that my great-great grandfather was the black sheep of the family in more ways than one. You tell me what I am; I haven't a clue. On the other hand, I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape when this question is asked. Perhaps those screaming 'racism' should look within once in a while... That means you're all black in my book Moose! While we are on this subject...my great grandfather and a couple of my uncles were said to have quite a few "illegitimate" children with black West Indians. These kids were born in the 1920s up to perhaps the 1950s in the islands. That means I've got quite a few black cousins. I never knew any of them. They all lived in the smaller islands while I lived in Jamaica. I have visited Montserrat and Antigua a few times and probably met a few of them as a kid, but I don't remember. Unfortunately, for the most part, the two races went their separate ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 are there any single sistas out there? DR SS1Â Â Â RainyDay, I believe -- but she hasn't been around in quite some time. So maybe no longer single??? RainyDay hasn't posted here since November 4 last year, but she's posting quite a bit over on JazzCorner. I think she was chased away by our posters who contributed to the "Playboy" thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Being chased away is one of her routines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolff Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Funny, but somewhat stupid thread. Most of my black friends (past and present) can't stand jazz and would never consider it their music in any shape or form, even if they were into it . They'd be insulted if you assumed they had a special insight due to their race. If this was 1930 or 1940 it might be a bit different. I'm pretty sure the only thing that matters is, "Can the guy play?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 rainy day please come home ss1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? What are we, in Oklahoma?!? :rsmile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 I think I got that saying from a Kurt Vonnegut novel or short story - can't remember which as I sold them all many years ago. Vonnegut - another American with German ancestors .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 (edited) A few months back I saw Andrew Hill at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Blacks in attendance, not counting Hill and band? Less than ten. If you're asking whay more blacks don't hang out on this board, I haven't a clue. Maybe they have better things to do with their time. A better question might be: why so few balcks in attendance at the Hill concert. Was it the venue? A hoity-toity art gallery? The white man's province? (Tongue partially in cheek.) If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that the disparity between black and white attendance at jazz concerts boils mostly down to income and similar demographic factors. If you took two people, one black and one white but otherwise identical, they'd have about the same probability of being jazz fans. I think the same conclusions can probably be drawn for the Organissimo website. Guy Edited January 28, 2005 by Guy Berger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannonball-addict Posted January 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Wow. Maybe we should invite Stanley Crouch into the fold..... B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 just came across this... My brother joined the Blue Note bulletin board, but rarely ever posted. His name was "ironman." I'd like to say he's up in here, but he isn't, and never has been. I should try to get him to check out org.org though. That way we'd have some brothers up in here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Funny, but somewhat stupid thread. Most of my black friends (past and present) can't stand jazz and would never consider it their music in any shape or form, even if they were into it . They'd be insulted if you assumed they had a special insight due to their race. If this was 1930 or 1940 it might be a bit different. I'm pretty sure the only thing that matters is, "Can the guy play?" Reminds me of the Yes Dear episode wher Greg has tickets to a jazz festival, (the worst episode in history of tv by the way; most insulting to the greatest art form of all, I stoppped watching the show after that one aired by the way) Anyway, Greg wants someone to go with him, and naturally, to make fun of jazz, they make no one say yes. But anyway, he asks a black person if he likes jazz. His response, "Because I'm black?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Jazz Kat: Seriously, tell me (us) more about that episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Reminds me of the Yes Dear episode wher Greg... WTF is Yes Dear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Reminds me of the Yes Dear episode wher Greg... WTF is Yes Dear? Some crappy sit-com on CBS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 (edited) I don't watch this stuff anymore. Forgive me. So, now I'm an really old fart. Edited January 29, 2005 by Chuck Nessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 who's Greg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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