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Pinkeyrox (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lol yea!!! :-D
chrissylbaby (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
actually I see a lot more white people buying and listening to rap music these days than black people so its the rappers laughing all the way to the bank...lol
lcooke (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is awesome. thank you so much for sharing this.
GS336 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thw video is of cakewalks, but the music is ragtime
GS336 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The first song is Smokey Mokes by Abe Holzmann
thomasdosborneii (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You're very wrong to think that it humiliated blacks, any more than something like "The Bill Cosby Show" humiliated blacks. It was very big entertainment and also, VERY big money. Bert Williams, who was black, earned $10,000 a week--translate that to today's money.
Zazaban (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Actually, it's cakewalk. The predecessor to ragtime.
jmamorteg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This music is ragtime, probably Scott Joplin's
0104vtvs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What music is this - does anybody knows - please mail me
SilverCloud1989 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
But so was the Jim Crow dance - it was invented overcome the laws that forbid African-Americans from dancing (e.g. during slavery, it was bending the knees), but eventually succumbed to being just another minstrel show in which whites humiliated blacks / blacks humiliated themelseves (in order to make money). |
