A Legacy of Budweiser and Chills
by David LaBounty
It was one of those
commercial-free
radio stations
and it was an
interview with
some young
black folk/soul
singer and she
played her acoustic
guitar live on the air
and sang her own
song and her
music
it gave
me chills
and goose bumps
in that kind of way
that only music
or art can do.
Long story short
her music
worked.
Her music
worked and
the interviewer
asked her
about her
influences
and it was
Maya Angelou
and other
women of color
that inspired
her and she
felt their
legacy coursing
through her
blood and through
her words and
I had to think
about my legacy,
a legacy of
Budweiser
coursing through
my blood, a
vague notion
of European
ancestry and
what
European ancestry
can do for you,
sometimes
It can leave
your skin
loose and
white and
pimply
and if you’re
a male and
middle aged
then it can
give you flesh
around your
waist but nothing
soulful,
nothing
poetic
nothing that
will give
anybody
chills.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:26 am
white power?
April 10th, 2007 at 1:57 am
No, nothing to do with white power and I really don’t feel that way about my heritage; it’s just that I feel as if I
get nothing from my heritage, and that’s the point.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Very well-said. Unfortunately, I feel the same way about being white. I guess we had all the soul sucked out of us looong ago, possibly for obvious reasons.
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