here. The command of the Constitution is plain.” (Johnson, 2009). Johnson also went as far as to remind everyone, “It was more than a hundred years ago that Abraham Lincoln, a great President of another party, signed the Emancipation Proclamation; but emancipation is a proclamation, and not a fact. A century has passed, more than a hundred years, since equality was promised. And yet the Negro is not equal. A century has passed since the day of promise. And the promise is un-kept.” (Johnson,
Afro-American Culture: From Slave Music to Jazz and Blues American music today is a wide range of genres. Most of the genres has its root in the music the slaves brought with them in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Genres like Jazz, blues, Gospel and Hip-Hop, which is well-known all over the world today, is mainly influenced by the African-American culture and music. Especially the work songs, or the “hollers”, that the slaves sung while working on the fields and the negro spirituals, which
was/is. The European and many other Euro-Asian nations have the caste system as well, but this caste system was and is always going to be awkward because this is America – the Home of the Free as the Star-Spangled Banner suggests. The Emancipation Proclamation gave rights but those rights were not recognized or adhered to. Jim Crowe was born and became stronger than the government because Jim Crowe was indirectly backed by the government. In Southern states, the lawmakers, the legislators and
mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin of nonsense. Whatever Almighty God has created is beautiful and useful. His creative powers are fabulous, beyond the purlieus of any kind of fallacy. God created Adam and Eve – both the remarkable assets for humanity