Wonkette
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2008 as Black Music Month. I encourage all Americans to learn more about the history of black music and to enjoy the great contributions of African-American singers, musicians, and composers.
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second.
“GEORGE W. BUSH”
PS: big sale on truck nutz.
Black Music Month, 2008: A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America [White House]
The impeachment will be televised.
How come Whitey gives them a month with only 30 days in it, and not one of those 31 day months reserved for other groups?
TRUCK NUTZZZZZZZ! Sorry, the term has got to be most amusing thing EVER. Well, that and imagining G-DUB rockin out to P-Funk. Nah…Truck Nutz is better.
I guess the only thing left to do is to tear the roof off tha motha, tear the roof of tha motha suckah…
That’s a bitchin album cover.
When Barry wins this thing in November I’ll be blasting some P-Funk. Especially Chocolate City. “Gainin’ on ya’! Can’t ya feel my breath?”
I’ve seen Parliament twice and it’s got to be the craziest concert experience one can have.
SayItWithWookies: Damn you. Who can beat that?
You couln’t find a picture of Funkadelic’s “Electric Spanking of War-Babies”?
Psst, Dubya. Black Music is more than Charlie Pride.
Black Music Month? I shall not shuck and jive for you, dammit.
We got the funk. Gotta have the funk.
W than added “I got soul, and I’m superbad!” and did the robot.
…Kanye West anyone?
This calls for… FUNKY PRESIDANCE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxKZRf8k2k
There should be one White Music Month, where we celebrate Appalachian folk and bluegrass, contributed by the only group who hated black people enough to not steal their music.
Doesn’t this post call for the video of W dancing in Africa?
that’s fascinating, i didn’t know black people made music. i’m going to try to see if i can find some sort of album at the collector stores and hear what it’s like.
When is Kazakhstan-American music month? Bing bong bing bong bing…
Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome was a way better Parliament album. Remember when Barry wasn’t “black enough” — I actually used to think of him as maybe a little bit like Sir Nose d’Voidoffunk.
queeraselvis v 2.0: thank you.
badco/LoJ: They did steal the banjo though, which (assuming my history isn’t wrong) was initially a slave invention built with hollow gourds and gut strings. Apparently, that creepy kid in “Deliverance” was totally down… and I don’t just mean the genetic syndrome.
Superstition is a bad-ass song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
Is this why Kellz was acquitted?
cantabrigia: My favorite? Motor Booty Affair. The gatefold had a pop-up inside. And the album itself was crunk before crunk was even born.
AngryBlakGuy:
It’s about time we celebrated the great black musicians, people like Louis Armstrong, Charlie Pride and Will Smith.
Cognitive dissonance FTW! Woooo!
(also: big sale on truck nutz! Woooo!)
That…..is racial transcendence?
Hey, now! Where you going with that UB40 in your hand?
I’m breaking out my Sister Souljah albums.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Someone should tell him Al Jolson doesn’t count.
See, guys, George Bush does care about black people after all! I mean, as long as they’re entertaining him with their music.
DAMMIT I burned all the music when Barry got the nomination. So hard to keep up with George!
Imagine42: He gets Al Jolson and Al Jarreau confused all the time.
@ Imagine42: This month I will be remembering the work of Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in Casablanca, and started his career singing Irish ballads in whiteface. Sadly there is no youtube footage of those early days.
Give up the funk, George. I mean, just fucking give it up.
Well I think in honor of this month, he should have painted the White House black… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lrp6×9AP0s
And I’m listening to Do That Stuff off ‘The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein’ right now!
mookworthjwilson: Fuck yeah. When I get too old to feed myself, I want to go to the same rest home as George Clinton.
EXCLUSIVE!! Wonkette™ Black Music Month Mix by Tits LaRue™©®:
James Brown - Future Shock
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgaEoOj-DeY
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBnR_8LIM
William Devaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQJi6lfm6Q
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQtmkoakjOc
Summer Madness - Kool And The Gang
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfzWj5a_Y4
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie’s Dead
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk9ZLjsl3U
James Brown - The Boss
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJuWcvCx9A
James Brown’s Future Shock - Tee Shirt Ad
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkLG0MGN-k
Wonkette: Keepin’ It Real, Bitches!
*remove the *
Come one y’all
gonna paint the white house black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl4lQ8tmdM
Gopherit v2.0:
Milly Vanilly anyone?
Tupac Tuesday is every day in June, says W *flashing Westside sign*.
EXCLUSIVE!! Wonkette™ Black Music Month Mix by Tits LaRue™©®:
(play in order)
James Brown - Future Shock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgaEoOj-DeY
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song
watch?v=fxKBnR_8LIM
William Devaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
watch?v=QHQJi6lfm6Q
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
watch?v=eQtmkoakjOc
Summer Madness - Kool And The Gang
watch?v=5bfzWj5a_Y4
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie’s Dead
watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing
watch?v=BJk9ZLjsl3U
James Brown - The Boss
watch?v=BBJuWcvCx9A
James Brown’s Future Shock - Tee Shirt Ad
watch?v=RZkLG0MGN-k
Wonkette: Keepin’ It Real, Bitches!
“A fight, a fight, a nigger and a white, if the nigger don’t win then we all jump in … smoking all [of] America’s white boys”;
“A Fight”; Apache
As you can tell, this is a GOP favorite (smoking all the white boys).
mookworthjwilson: Hellllz yeah. Perfeck!
Is this another fight between the getuplicans and the getdownocrats?
So if I don’t listen to Black Music this month, am I a racist or something? Because my first reaction was to not listen to any just because Bush want me to. Give me some advice, ’cause I don’t want to fuck up a whole month, or piss off my neighbors. Just to be safe, I’ll crank some Snoop…and keep my pimp hand strong…yo.
When is Ameriasian Music Month, then?
thefrontpage: I think you missed Ameriasian music hour back in January.
BTW, Motown Records sucked. Atlantic/Stax was the real deal.
(oo) What you want?
(oo) Da Macker don’t got it!
(oo) What you need ?
(oo) Do you know Bman’s got it?
(oo) All I’m askin’
(oo) Is for a little respect instead of bullshit (just a little bit)
Hey baby (just a little bit) instead of bullshit
(just a little bit) mister (just a little bit)
The Queen of Soul!
Now I gotta pull out my old Ruth Brown vinyl.
How fitting that R. Kelley should be acquitted during black history month!
Macker. Gracker. Right?
Does this mean that April is Klezmer music month?
For President George ‘No Soul’ Bush, the peppy stylings of Don Simmons, who “turned a personal affliction into a lifelong career”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p2Kc4JUHZQ
@ sweetladyirony: Thanks for that link! I never heard that version before. It’s too good.
Do we have white people chamber pop month? I’m almost as set up for that as I am black music month.
SayItWithWookies: YES! in honor of black music month, w. should have to listen to “whitey on the moon” non-stop for the remainder of the month.
im suddenly glad i didnt contribute a comment to this post…
More bounce to the ounce.
Funky President, it’s bad.
KevoTron: I am jealous you have seen Parliament.
badco/LoJ: Whitebread (as a spouse related to Oslama campaign was heard to chatacterize), the banjo finds ita origins in coastal West African
When they come to march on ya, GWB: make sure ya got ya James Brown pass.
RaptorAvatar: A friend of mine is a cousin of that guy from Deliverance. He’s completely normal, mentally, just funny looking. But kind of an asshole.
Africans may have invented the ancestor of the modern five-string banjo, but Earl Scruggs was the first guy to really figure out what to do with it.
Don’t be mean. George, seeing the advent of his last days, thought he was giving an award to The Ventures.
ronaldpagan: White supremacists also like black people, at least Barack Obama: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/06/11/president-obama-many-white-supremacists-are-celebrating/
Do fries go w/that shake? PsychoalphadiscobetabioaquaZoloft. Troops ‘happier’. Yay.
Oh George, how can you pander to those types of people. When do you get off work? I have a can of whoopass in my closet with your name written all over it.
I, for one, welcome the opportunity to crank up the Sammy Davis Jr. all month long.
OK, snark over.
Bring it on, my brothers:
LAST POETS
GIL SCOTT HERON
PUBLIC ENEMY
I love scarin’ the shit outta whitey, even though I’m a fair Aryan. I particularly like it when my suburbanite pals come over and gawk all silent and incredulous at my HUGE Malcolm poster where he’s holding a semi-automatic sneaking a peek out the curtains, with the legened: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
They just don’t get it. But they sure do go quiet in a hurry.
Black music? Oh, you mean Eminem?
Guess it’s time to break out those Dinah Shore 78’s!
badco/LoJ: you don’t know much about banjos, do ya?
Black music? Black music. Oh yeah, I remember black music when there were actually some talented men and women who gave a crap about music. Now we have ignorant, finger wavin’ Beyonces and grill flashin’ cop killers spoutin’ bad prison poetry. Do we really need another month of that crap? Black music, indeed. Blech music is more like it. Black culture is sooooooo dead. SO very very dead on every level.
Q:
Beautiful!
Makeithurt: Eeeeh… listen to this then:NAS - Black president
BlackEuro.Observer: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.4991/title.nas-black-president
It’s a shame that the great music of Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Natalie Cole, Mavis Staples, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Bo Diddley, and so many other legends was put away for that Corporate America Diva and Rappa shit. None of these supermodels that do the phony, over-exaggerated gospel yodel or the finger throwing, jewelry-clad Rappas that bark prison poetry can fucking sing. I can’t wait until Melinda Doolittle releases her first CD, then these sell-outs can see what fucking talent looks and sounds like.
What would Thelonius Monk or Charles Mingus say about this? They thought they played world music. They did know a thing or two about being marginalized by a lame white guy.
DC folks, do you remember Eva Cassidy?
Jim Newell,
Does Mick Hucknall from “Simply Red” count? When “Holding Back the Years” debuted, everyone thought he was a black chick. (The video quickly proved otherwise.) Still got to give it up for President Bush, with the help of a speech writer, being able to secure his legacy (finally) with Black Mucic Month. (Here in San Francisco, I am sure it is African-American Music Month, as we are a little too politically correct.)
All time favorites that fit the bill: “I’m the One You Need” by Jody Watley and “That’s the Way Love Goes” by Janet. (Miss Jackson, if you are nasty.) Oh, and “Secret Rendezvous” by Karyn White…the best of the best.
I guess I gravitate towards black women than men…oh well!
Sincerely and respectfully,
Mr. Clark
For some reason, I initially thought W was talking about Black Metal. He seems like a bit of a closeted Satanist, just like his VP.
AudicityofHope: Speaking of Satanic forces… Repulsive stuff. And so many links I don’t want to click on.
In honor of the month, prisoners at Guantanemo will be beaten on the upstroke until July.