The Red, White and Who?

First, the red man ruled and inhabited this land. Then came the white man with all of his greed and self-righteousness. He brought with him the black man as his mere servant a slave from birth. The white and red men were constantly at conflict with each other.

However, the red man had all the right to be bitter towards the whites who claimed their land (the Indians) from their own written laws and forced the red man to live on reservations.

It took a civil war to semi-free the black slaves (I use the word semi-free) for the blacks have never really been completely free in this land.

From Asia came the yellow man to work laying railroad tracks along with the Irish to unite the east with the west with locomotive transportation.

Our flag has three colors: The “red" “white" and “blue" I believe the blue was the color chosen unconsciously to relate to our so familiar and common term for “the blues."

The blues is a term used to relate to our feelings of down heartedness, without even realizing it we feel for the depressed and beaten down. Those who had a bad hand dealt to them all their lives.

I present in this article the lyrics from an old Frank Sinatra song called “The Birth of the Blues"

Oh, they say some people long ago
Were searching for a different tune
One that they could croon
As only they can

They only had the rhythm
So they started swaying to and fro
They didn’t know just what to use
That is how the blues really began

They heard the breeze in the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they made that the start of the blues

And from a jail came the wail
Of a down-hearted frail
And they played that
As part of the blues

From a whippoorwill
Out on a hill
They took a new note
Pushed it through a horn
till it was worn
Into a blue note

And then they nursed it, rehearsed it
And gave out the news
That the southland gave birth to the blues!

» left by Susan Thom

4 years 192 days ago.
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hi david, very nice, and very true. you did a nice job with the pictures. best regards, sue

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Thank you for commenting Susan

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