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    BombayPhDStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 3:54pm

    Don’t hate on the flute. I talked my son in picking it up by playing him old Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy tracks.

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      LolaFalanasLongAssLegsBombayPhD
      5/08/19 4:10pm

      Flutes are HOT now #FluteSwag #Floutist

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      LolaFalanasLongAssLegsLolaFalanasLongAssLegs
      5/08/19 4:37pm

      That would be #Flautist :)

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    HuskyBroStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 4:31pm

    Then, as with most things intrinsically native, along came white folks who pillaged the community looking for cheap rents and flutes (fine, they weren’t looking for flutes but white people do love a good woodwind instrument)

    ...Man, don’t start that mess...

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      PsiPhiGrrrlHuskyBro
      5/08/19 9:31pm

      That jumped out at me, too. I listened to a lot of Bobbi Humphrey albums back in the day (but it didn’t make my playing much better)...

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    LolaFalanasLongAssLegsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 4:34pm

    Go-go is one of the few musical genres left in the US that hasn’t been spoiled by the music industry. It’s the northern cousin to Dancehall. It gets no blacker than a band entirely made up of percussion instruments. More Cowbell!

    Ayre Rayde - “Is This The Way”

    Trouble Funk - “Drop The Bomb”

    Rare Essence - “Pieces of Me”

    Backyard Band - “Hello”

    AND Chuck Brown - “Go Go Swing”

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      notsocuddlyLolaFalanasLongAssLegs
      5/08/19 7:35pm

      You gotta give ‘em the basics too. Something closer to easy-listening, like a nice pocket beat:

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      LolaFalanasLongAssLegsnotsocuddly
      5/09/19 5:12am

      LOL at “easy listening.”  In school at lunch, we’d work out the beats with forks, knives, spoons, plates, glasses, mugs, and the tables trying to match the beats. #classic

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    mary2957Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 5:53pm

    Go ahead DC! Do your thing! I don’t mind others moving into our neighborhoods, but they are going to have to learn to adapt to the way that we live. Not the other way around. 

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      Massiebmary2957
      5/08/19 11:12pm

      Do you own all the property in the “neighborhood”?

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      mary2957Massieb
      5/09/19 3:20am

      Do you?

      I live in a rural neighborhood in the South that is gradually being turned multiracial. There is nothing wrong with that.

      What I have a problem is that when people move in, they take it upon themselves to tell the locals what to do. You need to learn and understand the people before you start imposing your will upon them. If you can’t do that, you need to keep it moving.  

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    My KinjaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 5:40pm

    Right on.

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    JRWStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 10:23pm

    Black people love a good woodwind, too. Specifically, Jazz Doreen Of New Orleans and her clarinet, with which she can summon ghosts, goddesses and gargoyles.

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    LoveHealsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 8:04pm

    This brought me joy. Thanks!

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    Old white guyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/08/19 5:42pm

    the same corner that was flooded in 2008 when Obama took office.

    Technically, he was elected in 2008 but took office in 2009. My guess is that it was flooded both days, although if it happened in 2020, the whites would be complaining about the excessive gathering of black people on the corner making noise (and possibly illegally barbecuing). 

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