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Whither N.O. Black culture?

  08/21/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I blogged on a scene from HBO’s Treme where a tour bus pulled up to a group of Black New Orleanians initiating a funeral (Continue Reading)

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funny story you may not appreciate

  07/25/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My wife and I went to a graduation where we parked in a huge parking lot and stupidly forgot to mark where our car was. (Continue Reading)

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Response to a column re the bust of Stalin

  07/16/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Stalin was a major leader of WW II, one of our allies, that’s it. That’s why he’s there. If you want him gone for moral (Continue Reading)

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Does Mel Gibson represent anybody?

  07/15/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Mel Gibson’s periodic meltdowns serve as fodder for columnists’ essays on the state of race relations. The comments attached illustrate both the lack of a (Continue Reading)

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Empiricism?

  05/10/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A member of a listserv argued with me some years ago that the findings in The Bell Curve, specifically that certain groups are superior or (Continue Reading)

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African responses to the “beat” of machinery

  04/25/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I went to dinner with relatives and one boy of 15 was there. As he walked to the table, he was dancing and I (Continue Reading)

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There’s a Negro in the census

  04/01/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment
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An underlying Ewe/Fon response pattern to Western music?

  03/22/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment
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Another funeral and the thoughts it engendered

  09/06/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Another stalwart has left us. One of those original people who accepted me into their church even though I never joined, never even became a (Continue Reading)

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Getting cross rhythms…… or not

  08/29/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I had an interesting experience yesterday at school. The band was setting up for a pep rally outside my room and the kid on the (Continue Reading)

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No fear for African-American culture

  08/18/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sometimes you just have to go to church. Not being a religious person, I sometimes raise eyebrows over my enthusiasm for going to church. But (Continue Reading)

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Black solidarity

  07/07/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Black solidarity is something that really irritates some people. We still hear angry White people mutter about OJ, citing videos of Blacks jubilant at the (Continue Reading)

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What Michael Jackson drew together and overcame

  06/28/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The mystery of Michael Jackson dissolved in the BET Awards ceremony broadcast only 3 days after his unexpected and shocking passing. No one was interested (Continue Reading)

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Tracing origins – fascinating

  03/15/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

One example of how African influences get lost or buried was revealed to me very early, before I had ever thought about the African-Americans among (Continue Reading)

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Given enough time, Africa will slide into the song

  02/07/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Tonight I once again witnessed a fascinating phenomenon of Af-Am music, Af-Am in the broadest sense to include all of the Americas: the way the (Continue Reading)

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On not nodding to Black people

  12/26/2008       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This morning my wife struggled with baggage at the airport. Of all days to arrive late, the day after Christmas was not the one. I (Continue Reading)

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A couple of records reviewed

  07/17/2008       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Opening a new category, I would like to mention a couple of old records, one just discovered today and one I’ve enjoyed over the years. (Continue Reading)

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Me and the African Diaspora

  11/04/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My wife and I bought a pig-in-a-poke, tickets to a performance at ASU, but it had to do with the influence of African dance on (Continue Reading)

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