as far as the Carolina Chocolate Drops name... to me that's just typical N Carolina tongue in cheek humor

as far as the idea of stealing anything... some things can't truly be owned by anybody, and music is one of them. Every culture borrowed from whatever came before them, then built on that from their culture's perspective. The next generation or culture borrows and changes it again.

Like every ideology, music is in a constant state of flux, and people of all kinds are involved in the change.

I could see those kids as token representations of something from the past.. but I prefer to see them as current speakers of the universal language... like musical prospectors, staking their claim to a sound that is uniquely theirs.

As far as being excluded from the club... that isn't just a racial thing... its the Montagues and Capulets... its the Hatfields and McCoys, its the Serbs and the Croats... Its the Republicans and the Democrats, the Catholics and the Protestants, The Sharks and the Jets, etc etc

As long as people focus on the things that make them different and not on the things that make them the same, opposition will make cooperation difficult if not impossible.

Opposition and cooperation are both two-way streets. Each of us can be part of the solution or part of the problem.

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