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                                Happy Black History Month                     

                            HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

And they manipulate our history books. The history books are not true! It’s a lie! The history books are lying. You need to know that. You must know that. All the forms of popular music: from jazz to Hip Hop, to Bebop to Soul. You talk about the different dances from the Cake Walk to the Jitter Bug to the Charleston to Break Dancing. All these are forms of BLACK dancing! What’s more important than giving people a sense of escapism, and escapism meaning entertainment? What would we be like without a song? What would we be like without a dance, joy and laughter and music? These things are very important! But if we go to the bookstore down on the corner, you won’t see ONE BLACK PERSON on the cover! You’ll see Elvis Presley. You’ll see the Rolling Stones. But where are the real pioneers who started it? Otis Blackwell was a prolific phenomenal writer. He wrote some of the greatest Elvis Presley songs ever and this was a Black man. He died penniless and no one knows about this man, they didn’t write one book about him that I know of because i’ve searched all over the world- And I met his daughter today, and I was so honored. To me, it was on the same level of meeting the Queen of England. But i’m here to speak for all injustice. You gotta remember something, the minute I started breaking the all-time record in record sales—I broke Elvis’s records, I broke the Beatles’ records—the minute it became the all-time-best-selling album in the history of the Guinness Book of World Records, OVERNIGHT they called me a freak, they called me a homosexual, they called me a child molester, they said I bleached my skin. They made everything to turn the public against me! This is all a complete, complete conspiracy. You have to know that. I know my race. I just look in the mirror, I know I’m Black.

“OVERNIGHT they called me a freak, they called me a homosexual, they called me a child molester, they said I bleached my skin! They made everything to turn the public against me