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Only A Few Act - The Rest Of Us Reap The Benefits Of Their Risk.

Because The Blues Is The Basis Of Most American Music In The 20th Century. It's A 12-bar Form That's Played By Jazz, Bluegrass And Country Musicians. It Has A Rhythmic Vocabulary That's Been Used By Rock N' Roll. It's Related To Spirituals, And Even The American Fiddle Tradition.

When Did We Begin To Lose Faith In Our Ability To Effect Change?

The Fact That We Are Culturally Ignorant And We Don't Know What Our Heritage Is, The Price That We Pay Is That We Act Outside Of Ourselves Almost All The Time. We Make Very Bad Decisions How We Deal With Other People And Their Culture.

For Me As A Person Who's In The Arts And As Someone Who Understands The Magnitude Of Our Contributions And The Price That Was Paid To Contribute To That, That We Just Have Not Gotten That Together. I Will Do All That I Can To Get In Front Of Our Kids, To Try To Teach Them, But At A Certain Point The People Have To Want It And Come Towards It.