Happy birthday Nat King Cole

[richardmurray]

Nat King Cole born 1919
enjoy music and lyrics from the legend

 

[ProfD]

The late, great Nat King Cole was a real troubadour & excellent musician.  

 

Colorism goes way back.  They did this to Nat King Cole for a TV appearance:

 

 

 

 

 

Nat King Cole was dark complexioned:

 

 

 

Nonetheless, Nat King Cole was definitely one our musical icons.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

21 hours ago, ProfD said:

The late, great Nat King Cole was a real troubadour & excellent musician.  

 

Colorism goes way back.  They did this to Nat King Cole for a TV appearance:

I know, but I look at it another way. Black people like Nat King Cole, like Frederick Douglass, MLK jr, James Forten, Michelle side Barrack Obama have always existed in the usa or the white european colonies/dominions that proceded it. 

Black people like Nat King Cole say to non blacks, non black dosers, that I will treat you with respect, with civility , even if you don't treat me the same. And not because I want to be humiliated or insulted or because I am weak, but because I treasure peace even amongst you... especially amongst you. I don't want to live my life fighting whites every day. That to me is what Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine (that whites treated sinfully) Nichelle Nichols (who suffered a lot of crow for the idea of Uhura who lives among the non black humans in the future:) far far future in peace, sorry non humans still a way to go for that) and other entertainers are saying. They fully know the Nat turners, the Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Quilombos are in the community, black people who don't trust the non black, don't want to live civilly among the nonblack, are willing to be armed and violent to uphold the way of life they want to have. But, Nat King Cole and other blacks like him, are willing to trust, live civilly with, willing to be unprotected around the non black, not naively or stupidly but with hope. 

 

That is the real point. Frederick Douglass's composite nation speech isn't suggesting the enslaver becomes the friend easily or overnight or simply. The enslaver becomes the abuser, the abuser becomes the trickster, the trickster becomes the dour, the dour may one day become the kin, the kin becomes the ally, the ally becomes the friend, the friend becomes the lover.  Cause all awhile from enslaver to lover, the other was always the neighbor, no segregation ever existed, it was always integrated ,in various forms. So, if the black is to embrace civility living aside the non black in various forms, it is a process, part of that process is being told to where white face paint and giving in sometimes and not giving in other times.  

 

[aka Contrarian]

In the mean time, silky-voiced Nat  Cole, a Chicago product, enjoyed tremendous popularity among his own people. He put out a lot of single 78 vinyl records in the '50s as I recall, and they were all hits!

We loved us some Nat "King" Cole.

Back in the day, a lot of -  perish the thought - colorist negro women used to pay him the left-handed compliment by declaring that "the only thing they liked black were Cadillacs and Nat Cole".

To this day, like one of his best 

sellers, he remains "Unforgettable".

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

But, Nat King Cole and other blacks like him, are willing to trust, live civilly with, willing to be unprotected around the non black, not naively or stupidly but with hope. 

Nat King Cole was gifted & talented which brings a certain level of respect & admiration even among enemies. 

 

I believe Nat King Cole used his gift to the make the best of time on the planet as a Black man.