Black Entertainment : SMOKEY ROBINSON ON BEING BLACK

[butterfly#1]

Are you aware that not all slaves came from Africa?


Peace!

Smokey is speaking his Truth, Malcolm speaks his. No one knows the reason that why one feels and speaks the way do. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is
what its called!

 

[RAPTOR]

This is not a question of "freedom of speech". No one is discussing anybody's right
to say what they wish. "Smokey is speaking his truth". Okay Yet smokey isn't/wasn't
speaking in a vacuum, he was speaking to a public to an audience. To wanna be
heard is to make what one says, fair game. Same as malcom, same as barkeley
or whomever.

If...., if smokey ever wanna come on and defend his position and or explain his
reasoning for saying what he said, the door is open. If any one wanna speak on
his behalf, that door is open too. For "freedom of speech" swings both ways...

 

[Kadijah]

The movement you obviously know nothing about. Discussion ended



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I agree. Your ignorance of the Civil Rights Movement is abysmal. Read a book.

 

[Kadijah]

I have no problem with anything Smokey said in that poem. I don't connect myself with america. I have always considered myself a prisoner of war.

I don't have a problem with his opinion, either. It's his, not mine. But I'm puzzled - if you don't connect yourself with America, who do you connect with? If you consider yourself to be a prisoner of war, which is what our ancestors were before they were beaten into slaves, what in Smokey's poem speaks to your feelings about America, about Africa?

 

[Kadijah]

So did Smokey Robinson and other Motown artists



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So did thousands of entertainers not so well known as the Motown artists. Which is why those of us who love the motherland and find Smokey's diss offensive, find your bringing "money" into the discussion as if it's relevant, to be puzzling.