African-American Appreciation Thread - Highlighting contributions from our most productive citizens

[Quantum Diabetes]

They have a deep and gentle love for wildlife

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[A Grey Cat]

thought I'd ressurect this thread to give a shout out to Prince; aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince aka "The Artist." sure he was prissy and probably so far in the closest he was having tea in Narnia but...his music especially hits like purple rain are so iconic and synonymous with the 80s. plus he understood music was heading for a cultural dead end. One of the last statements he publicly made before he died was he hated holograms and called them the worst innovation in music since auto tune...he died less than a year later and less than a year after that he was "brought back to life" via holograms. R.I.P Prince, you remind of better days

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

They have a natural affinity for technology

 

[Doctor Placebo]

thought I'd ressurect this thread to give a shout out to Prince; aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince aka "The Artist." sure he was prissy and probably so far in the closest he was having tea in Narnia but...his music especially hits like purple rain are so iconic and synonymous with the 80s. plus he understood music was heading for a cultural dead end. One of the last statements he publicly made before he died was he hated holograms and called them the worst innovation in music since auto tune...he died less than a year later and less than a year after that he was "brought back to life" via holograms. R.I.P Prince, you remind of better days

Should've put something in his will saying no holograms.

 

[AnOminous]

thought I'd ressurect this thread to give a shout out to Prince; aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince aka "The Artist." sure he was prissy and probably so far in the closest he was having tea in Narnia but...his music especially hits like purple rain are so iconic and synonymous with the 80s. plus he understood music was heading for a cultural dead end. One of the last statements he publicly made before he died was he hated holograms and called them the worst innovation in music since auto tune...he died less than a year later and less than a year after that he was "brought back to life" via holograms. R.I.P Prince, you remind of better days

He was also so insanely prolific he could never record all his own songs and sometimes even just gave them away. There are dozens of songs written by Prince that went on to chart for other artists.

 

[A Grey Cat]

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He was also so insanely prolific he could never record all his own songs and sometimes even just gave them away. There are dozens of songs written by Prince that went on to chart for other artists.

my only gripe with the man, he did not take kindly to uploads of his music to any digital format. not just iTunes or things like that you couldn't find prince songs on YouTube for YEARS. There wasn't an official prince YouTube channel until after he was gone.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[NynchLiggers]

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[Heckler1]

Black people hate niggers. It's true. Why do you think the second they get any money they go and live in white people neighborhoods?

 

[Pee Cola]

He was also so insanely prolific he could never record all his own songs and sometimes even just gave them away. There are dozens of songs written by Prince that went on to chart for other artists.

This could be an exaggeration, but I've heard/read that Prince had something like 2,000 unreleased tracks in his vault when he passed away. Given that Sheila E reportedly worked on hundreds of these unreleased tracks, I can't help but wonder if 2,000 or so unreleased songs is maybe an understatement.

Ofc we don't know at which stage these songs were at, but if the figure of 2,000 only counts recordings, there would probably be hundreds (if not thousands) more written but never recorded.

 

[The Last Stand]

Black person calmly asks about prices.

Hope he didn't get taxed.

 

[A Grey Cat]

while most people see Ernie Hudson as the fourth ghostbuster to me he will always be the third coolest thing about the film version of congo

He's only behind Bruce Campbell's short role and Tim Curry doing a hilariously bad Russian accent.


"Every monkey within 200 miles thinks he's Elvis Presley." Only he can a line as stupid as that sound cool as a cucmber.

 

[AnOminous]

Niggers are over 9000% better than weebs.

 

[A Grey Cat]

since it's February aka black history month id like to ressurect this threat to give a shout out to Scatman Crothers. aka one of the best soulful jazz singer who ever lived, voice of Hanna barbera's hong kong phooey

and G1 transformer's jazz,

played Dick Halloran in The Shining

but probably his best role of all singing the theme to Ralph Bakshi's coonskin

a movie that would NEVER be made today, and if it was it would be targeted by the reeeing masses on twitter as "racist" because kid's these days dont understand how humor and satire works.

Rip Mr. Crothers May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

Marvin Gaye.

 

[Heckler1]

Black History month sucks. Instead if being about cool black people who have accomplished something (Jack Johnson, Sammy Davis, Charley Pride, Aretha Franklin, Ali, George W. Carver, Jackie Robinson, Eartha Kit, etc) it turns into a month of Civil war slavery, and KANGZ.
Black People and the Irish have a similar problem in that they had the shit kicked out of them so thoroughly they have come to accept negative aspects of themselves as a regular thing. It even becomes marketed and before you know it every black man is excepted to be deadbeat dad/criminal/uneduacated loser, and every Irishman is expected to be an alcoholic, short tempered, wife beater.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Black History month sucks. Instead if being about cool black people who have accomplished something (Jack Johnson, Sammy Davis, Charley Pride, Aretha Franklin, Ali, George W. Carver, Jackie Robinson, Eartha Kit, etc) it turns into a month of Civil war slavery, and KANGZ.
Black People and the Irish have a similar problem in that they had the shit kicked out of them so thoroughly they have come to accept negative aspects of themselves as a regular thing. It even becomes marketed and before you know it every black man is excepted to be deadbeat dad/criminal/uneduacated loser, and every Irishman is expected to be an alcoholic, short tempered, wife beater.

i know youtube has this obnoxious BHM in big letters next to their logo and recommendations/ads for blm and other videos.

but in lighter news in honor of my original username jasonfan id like to give a shout out to the notible gentlemen of color from Friday the 13th part 5, with Shavar Ross playing the kid hero Reggie "the reckless" Winter

to Vernon Washington playing "Gramps" George

and of course their's Miguel A. Nunez Jr. playing Demon

 

[General Disarray]

I'd like to recognize the beautiful and talented Cicely Tyson. I'd tune in if a classic movie channel were to dedicate an afternoon to select films featuring her across the decades. RIP.

 

[Justtocheck]

Hightower from police academy is badass

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Lonnie Johnson gave us the Super Soaker.



Benjamin Banneker created the Farmers Almanac, and was a mathematician without much school experience.

He made me like math a whole lot more. Even if I wasn’t as great at it.