Intuition,
"If it wasn't for the U.S. the world wouldn't have Electricity, Telephones, Automobiles, factory assemble lines(Ford), Computers, Movies, Television, EMAIL, Rock-n-Roll, The Blues, R & B, Hip Hop,Basketball, Space travel etc."
You can't actually believe the world never have known these things had we not invented them.
"Rock-n-Roll, The Blues, R & B, Hip Hop"
I love music too, but I wouldn't be so quick to brag about these as they are basically the result, in an indirect fashion, of slavery.
Grantt,
"Basketball invented by an American I don't think so."
Naismith was Canadian but invented the game in Springfield, Mass, under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Physical Education at the School for Christian Workers.
A Canadian invented it within an American educational system. Who's game is it?
"If it wasn't for the U.S. the world wouldn't have Electricity, Telephones, Automobiles, factory assemble lines(Ford), Computers, Movies, Television, EMAIL, Rock-n-Roll, The Blues, R & B, Hip Hop,Basketball, Space travel etc."
You can't actually believe the world never have known these things had we not invented them.
"Rock-n-Roll, The Blues, R & B, Hip Hop"
I love music too, but I wouldn't be so quick to brag about these as they are basically the result, in an indirect fashion, of slavery.
Grantt,
"Basketball invented by an American I don't think so."
Naismith was Canadian but invented the game in Springfield, Mass, under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Physical Education at the School for Christian Workers.
A Canadian invented it within an American educational system. Who's game is it?
Frog - Go back and reread the post...we beat them to it.
Slavery was a TERRIBLE and CRUEL thing but it brought Africans to other continents who may have died from disease in Africa that was killing everyone at the time. Black Africans sold their own people into slavery. Curacao became the heart of the slave trade because of African merchants.
But NOT all blacks in America were descendants of slavery. But the poor living conditions they endured came out in the music they played to COPE with it and that was the BLUES that influenced ROCK-n-Roll.
ELVIS became HUGE because he was the first white man to sing the Blues like a black man and he HIT the spot. He also had a good voice and jerked his body on stage like many black performers before him had done for years before he was ever born.
And YES basketball was an American sport. Developed in America...a Canadian is technically a American as he/she is from North America.
Slavery was a TERRIBLE and CRUEL thing but it brought Africans to other continents who may have died from disease in Africa that was killing everyone at the time. Black Africans sold their own people into slavery. Curacao became the heart of the slave trade because of African merchants.
But NOT all blacks in America were descendants of slavery. But the poor living conditions they endured came out in the music they played to COPE with it and that was the BLUES that influenced ROCK-n-Roll.
ELVIS became HUGE because he was the first white man to sing the Blues like a black man and he HIT the spot. He also had a good voice and jerked his body on stage like many black performers before him had done for years before he was ever born.
And YES basketball was an American sport. Developed in America...a Canadian is technically a American as he/she is from North America.
IB,
"Slavery was a TERRIBLE and CRUEL thing but it brought Africans to other continents who may have died from disease in Africa that was killing everyone at the time. Black Africans sold their own people into slavery. Curacao became the heart of the slave trade because of African merchants."
I'm not totally sure what your point is here it almost sounds like you're justifying slavery or blaming someone else, I don't even want to go there.
No, not all blacks in the States are descendants of slavery but the mayority are. The blues, which was a huge influence on the birth of rock and roll, can be traced back to slavery and the singing styles used to "cope" with that lifestyle.
I'm an Elvis fan myself, but I think you're missing something about his break into fame. Yes, the fact that he sounded like a black man had a lot to do with it, but the biggest factor was that he was white. The public liked the sound but didn't want to hear it from a black artist. Little Richard had been trying to get heard for a while when Elvis made it, but at that time Little Richard would never have been allowed to play a place like the Grand Ole Opry. Then, of course, Elvis' looks and dancing killed the ladies, that combined with the voice and he was on his way. I also think that we've forgotten to mention that English artists have contributed to the development of rock and roll, possibly even more than artist from the States.
"And YES basketball was an American sport. Developed in America...a Canadian is technically a American as he/she is from North America."
We're debating the nationality not the geographics of the origin of basketball.
"Slavery was a TERRIBLE and CRUEL thing but it brought Africans to other continents who may have died from disease in Africa that was killing everyone at the time. Black Africans sold their own people into slavery. Curacao became the heart of the slave trade because of African merchants."
I'm not totally sure what your point is here it almost sounds like you're justifying slavery or blaming someone else, I don't even want to go there.
No, not all blacks in the States are descendants of slavery but the mayority are. The blues, which was a huge influence on the birth of rock and roll, can be traced back to slavery and the singing styles used to "cope" with that lifestyle.
I'm an Elvis fan myself, but I think you're missing something about his break into fame. Yes, the fact that he sounded like a black man had a lot to do with it, but the biggest factor was that he was white. The public liked the sound but didn't want to hear it from a black artist. Little Richard had been trying to get heard for a while when Elvis made it, but at that time Little Richard would never have been allowed to play a place like the Grand Ole Opry. Then, of course, Elvis' looks and dancing killed the ladies, that combined with the voice and he was on his way. I also think that we've forgotten to mention that English artists have contributed to the development of rock and roll, possibly even more than artist from the States.
"And YES basketball was an American sport. Developed in America...a Canadian is technically a American as he/she is from North America."
We're debating the nationality not the geographics of the origin of basketball.
