There's just a couple points i wanted to point out and to see if anyone caught the same thing from this excerpt from William Ferris Jr. During this time, the first well known blues players were known as "sweet back papas". These men we're well respected throughout the whole music world. What I found interested is that these African Americans didn't know how cotton and corn and rice and sugar-cane grows and they didn't care. I mean I'm not trying to to say that all African Americans should know but during that time period, you had to learn from some where. You must have picked up skills from all over the place and one of those places had to be on the field. It's rare to have a wealthy African American generation above them to just let them go out and dress up and play music ever since they were born.

Another thing that caught my eye was when they interviewed Prince Rivers. They were asking him questions about blue and the making of blues. He answered all of them but why did the writer had to spell the words that he was saying in such a way that doesn't even exist in a dictionary. I felt some sort of a racist characteristic coming out from the interviewer. Do they do this to all African Americans that they talk to or when they need to say something in public and the way they report it? Or maybe just simply the interviewer wants to embarrass them? Is it just me or does no one realize this?

-Jack