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Lizra · 12-25-2006, 03:20 PM

He was an extremely controversial person back in the sixties....he was "Soul Brother #1"....and that meant something. Racism was really up front and ugly then...and James Brown stepped right up and said/chanted "Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud!" Racist white people like Alabama gov George Wallace hated him. Thankfully, times slowly changed, mellowed...Then he became the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business" (cause he gigged so much) and finally "The Godfather of Soul"....

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Lizra Insane Location: rural Indiana	He was an extremely controversial person back in the sixties....he was "Soul Brother #1"....and that meant something. Racism was really up front and ugly then...and James Brown stepped right up and said/chanted "Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud!" Racist white people like Alabama gov George Wallace hated him. Thankfully, times slowly changed, mellowed...Then he became the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business" (cause he gigged so much) and finally "The Godfather of Soul".... __________________ Happy atheist Last edited by Lizra; 12-25-2006 at 03:23 PM..