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...booed John Rocker this summer. No, scratch that. Let me be more specific. I booed, jeered, taunted, harangued and even hissed (for a bit) at John Rocker this summer. And let me tell you it was great...
Here's a little background. John Rocker is the infamous relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who grabbed the national spotlight earlier this year for deriding gays, poking fun at Asians, espousing a distaste for foreigners and calling a black teammate of his a "fat monkey," all in the course of one Sports Illustrated Article...
...Rocker was vilified for his comments in the national press, but it was his unrepentant behavior afterward that made him a singularly reviled figure in sports. After an apology that came from his mouth with all the willingness of a healthy tooth, Rocker continued to make inflammatory statements and topped it all off by even threatening the SI reporter who wrote the profile...
...talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening...
...coming days. His mother Phyllis Moore pulls out a stack of blank greeting cards for him to choose from. "This one says, 'With special thoughts of you,' and has a cute teapot on it," she calmly tells her son as he sits on his well-worn living-room rocker. "This one has a little girl with flowers." He's not sure exactly what he will say in his farewell notes to his three sisters and two stepsisters. He figures the words will come to him when he starts to write. The hardest one will...