As far as her thread title ---- I cannot remember a time when racism was NOT real. Except for one brief moment in Detroit, walking out of the Motown Museum. Everyone should do that.
Motown Museum. Great memories. Great music!
Only problem I have with Motown is Berry Gordy. Modern day black slave driver.
Like the Southern Plantations, he became wealthy by exploiting the talents and hard work of young black artists by
paying them next to nothing while he raked in millions.
Your racism is laughable.
If you don't know that,....you don't know Motown.
What the Motown Museum does, in excess of simply relating the history of the building and showing the old studio, like the Sun Studio in Memphis does (constructed by Sam Phillips who, like every other record company exec, had the same vitriol flung at him as you did here), was to offer a window into the historical social structure of 1960.
America was segregated, right down to its music. You didn't see any black people on American Bandstand, they weren't allowed in, and when you finally did you NEVER saw them mixing with whites. You had "cover" versions of popular songs, literally meaning a "safe" white artist like Pat Boone would re-do a black artist like Little Richard, so that white American parents wouldn't have to suffer the "degradation" of buying a record by a black man. Even in 1964 you had the Beatles refusing to play a concert (in Jacksonville btw) because it was going to be segregated.
Berry Gordy set out to change all that by creating music that would so much appeal to both, that those barriers would come down. And he did just that. In fact the entire philosophy of what Motown was there for is summed up in a single line:
"This is an invitation
Across the nation
A chance for folks to MEET"
And he succeeded. For that he's an American hero.
If you don't know that ..... you don't know Berry Gordy.
Oh look ----- the hunter just got captured by the game.