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Now to answer Torkwase, we first have to accept and entertain
her premise that Black Visual artists haven’t achieved what
Black musicians have, which means we have to ask ourselves,
well, just what have Black musicians achieved besides giving
the world Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith,
Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Howling Wolf, Chuck Berry,
Miles Davis, BB King, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Aretha
Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Tina Turner, Chaka
Khan, Bob Marley, Prince, Public Enemy and The Wu Tang
Clan? Okay, so we accept Torwase’s fundamental premise
without equivocation — hard to think of any Black Visual
Artists who could sell out the Disney for four nights within
minutes after an appearance is announced?
Another answer I gave Torkwase was that music has the benefit
of not having to bypass the brain to move the human heart.
Music is the quintessence of a Dark Energy force. Black
American Visual Art tends to lack the Dark Energy properties
of Black music — not African art though (!) and not the art
of Thornton Dial — Art, which even on security lock down
in a warehouse in Atlanta scares the sheeeeet outta Museum
curators from the Guggenheim to the Getty. But this lack of
propulsive dark energy properties is why you will frequently
hear tales of folk who decided not to commit suicide because
a certain song came on, but have hardly ever heard of
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