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If you guys didn't know it is black history month and I LOVE history !
It's so many blacks that don't get they props for making the world and making trends
That are used this very day and age ! So for all of February I shall be giving facts and
Everything black lol ! Happy black history month
Fun fact did you know ?
They might have drawn Betty Boop white, but her history is black. The character was actually stolen from Cotton Club singer Esther Jones — known by her stage name “Baby Esther” and the baby talk she used when she sang songs like “I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop- Boop-BeDoo). Her act later “inspired” cartoonist Max Fleischer to create the character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character
#HistoryWithCookies
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Educate us GMC 
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Happy Black History Month my fellow black ATRLers 
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I got so pissed yesterday because one of my friends, who is also black, didn't know what Bloody Sunday was and this dude saw Selma and still didn't know.
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Educate me GMC
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This should be a daily thing tbh, I heard a bit about the betty boop thing but not all of it. Good to be informed
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I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!!! EDUCATE US SIS 
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btw if anyone cares The Color of Friendship is airing on Disney, February 5th at midnight 
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Happy Black History Month, y'all!!
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Here's a nice nail in the coffin for any idiot who wants to dispute the FACT that black people INVENTED country and rock music, and a lot of mainstream genres that are consumed worldwide today. It's ironic that some racists in other countries don't know how much they owe to black people's innovations.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...9205922AAainBS
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Black people created the Blues and white people made a copy of it (or were inspired to create) country music. If you listen to country and you listen to the Blues, you will definitely hear some similarities. Black people even created rock n' roll as well. I believe that they created almost every form of music in America except for classical.
Edit: Blacks created the guitar. Look it up. And no, country music does NOT predate the Blues. Country music grew out of black music. Listen to the music and you'll hear the same sorrowful sounds and the same sort of themes that the Blues have. White people were singing the Blues in clubs. Whites then heard it and with the help of some blacks created a type of music that was for whites. I don't have to be a musician to hear the similarities. The Blues came from the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
Notice that in the 1960's and 1970's on that website, that BLUES ROCK appeared...showing that rock also came from the blues and was inspired by black music.
Look at when Country music started...much later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music
And if you look under the "Early History" part, you'll see that black Americans had a HUGE part in creating country music. Also, one early musician in country music history named Jimmie Rodgers mixed hillbilly country (real name), gospel (created by blacks), jazz (created by blacks), blues (created by blacks), pop (some created by blacks), cowboy, and folk; and many of his best songs were his compositions, including “Blue Yodel”,[25] which sold over a million records and established Rodgers as the premier singer of early country music.
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Originally posted by KingsOfLeon1994
btw if anyone cares The Color of Friendship is airing on Disney, February 5th at midnight |
Yaaas, they need to play Selma, Lord, Selma too.
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i love you. you always spill the tea
yes, we rock
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Yes give me more facts!
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Happy Black History Month!! Even though it's the shortest month of the year make the most of it!!
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Where is everyone? kiii 
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Originally posted by SneakerNerd
I got so pissed yesterday because one of my friends, who is also black, didn't know what Bloody Sunday was and this dude saw Selma and still didn't know. |
well there is a lot of bloody sunday in history, the most talk about ones often are not that one. if someone mentioned bloody sunday i would probably think he was talking about at least 3 other ones before i came to that one.
yes cookies, i'm looking forward to these.
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Esther Jones, known by her stage name, "Baby Esther," was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. Her "baby" singing style often included the phrase, “Boop-oop-a-doop”. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical Manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial, that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones baby voice style of singing and changed the interpolated words ‘Boo-Boo-Boo’ & ‘Doo-Doo-Doo’ to ‘Boop-boop-a-doop’ for a recording of "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Kane has never publicly admitted that she copied. Jones' style, as imitated by Kane, went on to become the inspiration for the voice of the cartoon character Betty Boop.
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Defense uses Baby Esther
The defense argued that Kane had taken the idea from Baby Esther. Evidence was produced that Kane actually derived that singing style from watching Baby Esther perform at the Cotton Club several years before the creation of the Betty Boop character. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified for the defense stating that in 1925, he coached a "young negro child" named Esther, teaching her how to interpolate her songs with scat lyrics which she later re-purposed into her trademark "boop oop a doop." Jones' manager testified that he and Kane had seen her act together in April 1928, and just a few weeks later, Kane began to "boop
So they used her so they won't get in trouble lol its true tho
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