The Great Ancestor Loius Armstrong – Know him!
Louis Armstrong did not speak out as a rule against the racially oppressive system but when he did it was effective because he meant it and re-enforced it with action, not babble such as we see with these fake ass celebrities today. The coons, sellouts and oreo crackers have always been our reality.
Real recognizes real!
“The article ran all over the country. Douglas Edwards and John Cameron Swayze broadcast it on the evening news. The Russians, an anonymous government spokesman warned, would relish everything Mr. Armstrong had said. A radio station in Hattiesburg, Miss., threw out all of Mr. Armstrong’s records. Sammy Davis Jr. criticized Mr. Armstrong for not speaking out earlier. But Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt and Marian Anderson quickly backed him up.”
“Mr. Armstrong bitterly recounted some of his experiences touring in the Jim Crow South. He then sang the opening bar of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” inserting obscenities into the lyrics and prompting Velma Middleton, the vocalist who toured with Mr. Armstrong and who had joined them in the room, to hush him up.”
Read both articles on this great ancestor:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/opinion/23margolick.html
https://sites.google.com/…/home/louis-armstrong-and-civil-r…
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