“A Family Conversation” is a storytelling audio series that features weekly discussions between blogging cousins LadyG and Ron Brown on current events along with favorite posts from each other’s blog.

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Updated: 7/3/2021

Contains adult language

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In this post, the cousins are talking about:

• Ron’s milestone birthday–chile, he fine as frog’s hair!
• How Ron shut LadyG’s mouth
• An “irksome” new friend who introduces Ron to some new thangs
• The fact that slow talking Southerners are not dummies.
• Whether or not Gil Scott-Heron was the first rapper
• Ron presents Scott-Heron’s “The Bicentennial Blues” which points to the paradox of Independence Day.
• The importance of research
• Defining terms
• Work songs as the musical ancestors to the blues and appreciating the fact that they gave birth to R&B/Soul music and damn near everything else thereafter!
• America’s legacy of hypocrisy
• Babies on buses; a horrible incident in South Carolina (March 2, 1970)where a group of 150-200 white men rocked and turned over school buses during integration.

Links:

THE BLUESOLOGIST: THE BICENTENNIAL BLUES By: Ron Brown

Evil that once drove angry whites to overturn school buses is stirred again

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Join us next Friday, July 8th for a continuation of the conversation.