Thursday, January 21, 2021

Just Walkin' in the Rain

Just Walkin' in the Rain (Sun Records in Memphis):


a 1952 popular song written when The Prisonaires were, well, in prison in Nashville, TN. Lead singer Johnny Bragg had his sentence commuted in 1956, but in 1960 he was arrested for "parole violation" for being found in the back of an automobile with a white women. It was his wife. He was returned to jail for six and a half years.

And you wonder why they protest. #BlackLivesMatter

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  1. ...a new version for me, thanks.

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    1. Their story is interesting, I think.

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  2. Walkin’ in the sunshine today.

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  3. I love this music, I hate what happened to him. #BlackLivesMatter

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    1. Nice! We have drizzly grayness with an expected high of 55.

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    2. That #BlackLivesMatter is at all a controversial statement says a lot.

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  4. It's painfully easy to find illustrations of systemic racism throughout American history, isn't it? Will our new government find ways to mitigate our shame?

    be safe... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. This administration at least acknowledges the problem.

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  5. That's horrible! With his wife!
    But I remember my family driving down south during that time and the white only water fountains and bathrooms for "colored". No, I think BLM is waaaay overdue!
    You can hear the heart in that song. :)

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  6. Six cases of rape at age 17?! Boy-oh-boy.
    Sad with the wife, though. Sad we need "Black lives matter", it should be guaranteed...

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    1. I looked for the story surrounding those rape cases and couldn't find it.

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  7. How awful, the Segregation laws were so unfair.

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    1. The Jim Crow period was a bizarre time

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  8. I never knew that. Arrested for being with your wife. We can be so shameless in this country. Thanks for sharing this.

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    1. We haven't progressed all that far since then, it sometimes seems to me :(

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