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littlewoody
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littlewoody
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Dam !Mr.Glock wrote:Don't worry, soon we may all know what it's like to live in Kenya.
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Pine Mt Beagles
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To bad for Kenya
Southern Trash has made their way there,and infected their culture,,next thing you know they will own,Slaves. Be Marring their Sisters,,,trying to take from the working people and give to the Elite.and Blame every one Else for their Problems.
Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya
By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSHJULY 1, 2015
In Nairobi, people dance to Sir Elvis, who has become perhaps the best-known Kenyan country performer. Credit Will ,Kenya — Sir Elvis, dressed in a yellow and black plaid shirt, jeans, boots and a black cowboy hat, tuned his guitar under the wooden roof and neon beer advertisements of the Reminisce Bar and Restaurant. With a signal to the band, he began singing the Don Williams country hit “It Must Be Love” in a purring baritone. Patrons got up to dance, rocking back and forth.
This would not be an unusual sight for Nashville or just about any country tavern in the United States. Except this was not East Texas, but Nairobi in East Africa, where American country music has a surprisingly robust, and growing, following.
“I grew up with it, and my parents loved country,” said Elvis Otieno, 37, who has become perhaps the best-known Kenyan country performer. Sir Elvis, as he is known onstage, was born the year Elvis Presley died, and was named after him by parents who were big fans of the King.
Kenyans are not immune to the global juggernaut of American popular music and listen to plenty of its genres: pop, hip-hop and rhythm and blues among them. But it is country music that has a strong hold. Country songs are regularly played on the radio. The Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation has a weekly radio show, “Sundowner,” that often features country, while a private television station, 3 Stones, broadcasts a program called “Strings of Country.” Reminisce and the Galileo Lounge here have weekly gigs, and the first country music fair in Kenya, the Boots and Hats Country Festival, took place in March.
Increasingly, Kenyan country singers are writing their own music about love and longing, in an American twang. A Dolly Parton-loving singer named Esther Konkara has recorded her own songs, which are played on local radio stations. Sir Elvis said he was planning a gospel album, and Carlos Piba, 25, another local artist, said he hoped to record country one day in Swahili, the national language.
The ultimate hope for these performers, no matter how improbable, would be to sing with their heroes. “If I could share a stage with Charley Pride or Don Williams or Garth Brooks,” Sir Elvis said, “it would be a dream come true.”
American country music has found audiences around the world, introduced by American soldiers to Japan, Korea, Thailand and Germany, and through Hollywood movies. Particularly devoted fan bases have grown in unexpected places like Australia, Jamaica and South Africa. Aaron Fox, a professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, theorized that country music caught on in urbanizing places, where it was embraced as a nostalgic counter to the loss of traditional values.
In Kenya, country music’s popularity dates to the 1940s and crosses classes, but is especially pronounced in the central highlands, the country’s farm belt. Many of the fans are over 50, but a younger generation who grew up listening to their parents’ music also tune in.
European settlers, mostly British, transported the music here during Kenya’s colonial era, which ended in 1963. “We took it up from them,” John Obongo, the host of “Sundowner,” said of the Europeans. Country’s appeal also stems from the relatively straightforward lyrics and slower tempos, he said. “Some pop music is too fast.”
Southern Trash has made their way there,and infected their culture,,next thing you know they will own,Slaves. Be Marring their Sisters,,,trying to take from the working people and give to the Elite.and Blame every one Else for their Problems.
Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya
By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSHJULY 1, 2015
In Nairobi, people dance to Sir Elvis, who has become perhaps the best-known Kenyan country performer. Credit Will ,Kenya — Sir Elvis, dressed in a yellow and black plaid shirt, jeans, boots and a black cowboy hat, tuned his guitar under the wooden roof and neon beer advertisements of the Reminisce Bar and Restaurant. With a signal to the band, he began singing the Don Williams country hit “It Must Be Love” in a purring baritone. Patrons got up to dance, rocking back and forth.
This would not be an unusual sight for Nashville or just about any country tavern in the United States. Except this was not East Texas, but Nairobi in East Africa, where American country music has a surprisingly robust, and growing, following.
“I grew up with it, and my parents loved country,” said Elvis Otieno, 37, who has become perhaps the best-known Kenyan country performer. Sir Elvis, as he is known onstage, was born the year Elvis Presley died, and was named after him by parents who were big fans of the King.
Kenyans are not immune to the global juggernaut of American popular music and listen to plenty of its genres: pop, hip-hop and rhythm and blues among them. But it is country music that has a strong hold. Country songs are regularly played on the radio. The Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation has a weekly radio show, “Sundowner,” that often features country, while a private television station, 3 Stones, broadcasts a program called “Strings of Country.” Reminisce and the Galileo Lounge here have weekly gigs, and the first country music fair in Kenya, the Boots and Hats Country Festival, took place in March.
Increasingly, Kenyan country singers are writing their own music about love and longing, in an American twang. A Dolly Parton-loving singer named Esther Konkara has recorded her own songs, which are played on local radio stations. Sir Elvis said he was planning a gospel album, and Carlos Piba, 25, another local artist, said he hoped to record country one day in Swahili, the national language.
The ultimate hope for these performers, no matter how improbable, would be to sing with their heroes. “If I could share a stage with Charley Pride or Don Williams or Garth Brooks,” Sir Elvis said, “it would be a dream come true.”
American country music has found audiences around the world, introduced by American soldiers to Japan, Korea, Thailand and Germany, and through Hollywood movies. Particularly devoted fan bases have grown in unexpected places like Australia, Jamaica and South Africa. Aaron Fox, a professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, theorized that country music caught on in urbanizing places, where it was embraced as a nostalgic counter to the loss of traditional values.
In Kenya, country music’s popularity dates to the 1940s and crosses classes, but is especially pronounced in the central highlands, the country’s farm belt. Many of the fans are over 50, but a younger generation who grew up listening to their parents’ music also tune in.
European settlers, mostly British, transported the music here during Kenya’s colonial era, which ended in 1963. “We took it up from them,” John Obongo, the host of “Sundowner,” said of the Europeans. Country’s appeal also stems from the relatively straightforward lyrics and slower tempos, he said. “Some pop music is too fast.”
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Rabbithoundjb
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LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IDIOT SHEEEEEEEEP
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cris axtell/coal hill ken
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Seems to me this is a growing industry creating jobs and helping the economy. What have you done to help them pm. 
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Pine Lakes
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Hey Rufus, can you give us one example of a country music song that suggests owning slaves is a good thing? People influence other people. Look at our culture for example, it is a culmination of the world but I guess that is a terrible thing in your eyes because you hate America. Remember that when you're lazy, good for nothing arse is chomping on a plate of spaghetti while watching Benny Hill. I actually laugh at Rufus' stupidity at times. I find myself questioning if he is really a conservative republican attempting to strengthen the cause or just really that stupid.
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He is really that stupid, this is the only place he can vent and walk away without a black eye and fat lip. He calls people cowards but I bet he dont run his mouth at the local diner with his idiot thought process.
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Unread postby Pine Mt Beagles » Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:10 pm
To bad for Kenya
Southern Trash has made their way there,and infected their culture,,next thing you know they will own,Slaves. Be Marring their Sisters,,,trying to take from the working people and give to the Elite.and Blame every one Else for their Problems.
No such thing. THe Obama's, to my knowledge, are no longer in the slave trading business. Maybe its just being squelched like Obama's birthplace.
Obama's Kenyan ancestors sold slaves http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/07 ... ld-slaves/
I didn’t watch the coverage yesterday of Obama’s visit to Ghana and his speech at Cape Coast Castle there, which served as holding quarters and a departure point from West Africa for slave traders. I’m thinking Obama couldn’t resist fanning the flames of African-American resentment and racism during his trip to Africa. Plus, maybe he wanted to pump up some of the rapidly dwindling supplies of white guilt. Or see if he could reinstate the race card system that expired at noon on January 20, 2009, when he took the oath of office of President of the United States. His best hope to achieve any or all of these objectives was to choose a West African country and hope no one in the state-run media would think to wonder why he didn’t choose Kenya in East Africa, the land of his father and his father’s tribe, the Luo, which also was a major slave-trading center.
One reason may be that New World blacks would be descended from West Africans. However, I am suspicious that another reason is that on both his mother’s AND his father’s side of the family, Obama is descended from people who owned and/or sold black African slaves. How ironic that Obama received almost universal support from blacks who are here because their ancestors were grabbed up and sold into slavery by other black Africans, including Obama’s father’s tribe.
Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests
Historians say there was a trade in human labor, of both whites and blacks, during this period in American history. There were also some free African-Americans. Beginning around 1617, indentured servants were bought and sold, as were debtors, in the Chesapeake Bay region, said Ira Berlin, a University of Maryland professor and expert in the history of slavery. But while those people were in an “unfree condition,” he said, historians cannot pinpoint a date for the beginning of the slave trade.
“What makes the John Punch case interesting is here is a guy who is definitely a slave,” said Professor Berlin, who did not participate in the examination of the president’s ancestors.
The Ancestry.com team used DNA analysis to make the connection, and it also combed through marriage and property records to trace Mr. Obama’s maternal ancestry to the time and place where Mr. Punch lived. The company said records suggested that Mr. Punch fathered children with a white woman, who passed her free status on to those children, giving rise to a family of a slightly different name, the Bunches, that ultimately spawned Mr. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/ob ... .html?_r=0
Since this article came from the NY Times, a Progressive rag, there is no proof that it is valid.
To bad for Kenya
Southern Trash has made their way there,and infected their culture,,next thing you know they will own,Slaves. Be Marring their Sisters,,,trying to take from the working people and give to the Elite.and Blame every one Else for their Problems.
No such thing. THe Obama's, to my knowledge, are no longer in the slave trading business. Maybe its just being squelched like Obama's birthplace.
Obama's Kenyan ancestors sold slaves http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/07 ... ld-slaves/
I didn’t watch the coverage yesterday of Obama’s visit to Ghana and his speech at Cape Coast Castle there, which served as holding quarters and a departure point from West Africa for slave traders. I’m thinking Obama couldn’t resist fanning the flames of African-American resentment and racism during his trip to Africa. Plus, maybe he wanted to pump up some of the rapidly dwindling supplies of white guilt. Or see if he could reinstate the race card system that expired at noon on January 20, 2009, when he took the oath of office of President of the United States. His best hope to achieve any or all of these objectives was to choose a West African country and hope no one in the state-run media would think to wonder why he didn’t choose Kenya in East Africa, the land of his father and his father’s tribe, the Luo, which also was a major slave-trading center.
One reason may be that New World blacks would be descended from West Africans. However, I am suspicious that another reason is that on both his mother’s AND his father’s side of the family, Obama is descended from people who owned and/or sold black African slaves. How ironic that Obama received almost universal support from blacks who are here because their ancestors were grabbed up and sold into slavery by other black Africans, including Obama’s father’s tribe.
Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests
Historians say there was a trade in human labor, of both whites and blacks, during this period in American history. There were also some free African-Americans. Beginning around 1617, indentured servants were bought and sold, as were debtors, in the Chesapeake Bay region, said Ira Berlin, a University of Maryland professor and expert in the history of slavery. But while those people were in an “unfree condition,” he said, historians cannot pinpoint a date for the beginning of the slave trade.
“What makes the John Punch case interesting is here is a guy who is definitely a slave,” said Professor Berlin, who did not participate in the examination of the president’s ancestors.
The Ancestry.com team used DNA analysis to make the connection, and it also combed through marriage and property records to trace Mr. Obama’s maternal ancestry to the time and place where Mr. Punch lived. The company said records suggested that Mr. Punch fathered children with a white woman, who passed her free status on to those children, giving rise to a family of a slightly different name, the Bunches, that ultimately spawned Mr. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/ob ... .html?_r=0
Since this article came from the NY Times, a Progressive rag, there is no proof that it is valid.
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Sooo...on Planet Rufus this article is undeniable PROOF that Obamas of the past, much the same way Bush's of the past, have engaged in atrocities. Therefore Obama is unfit to serve...
Finally something we ALL can agree on eh Dufus?
Finally something we ALL can agree on eh Dufus?
The 1st amendment allows the usual liberal narcissistic "I think.." which is how they start all their sentences.
The second amendment protects us from implementing "I think"
The second amendment protects us from implementing "I think"
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Alabama John
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Too bad all this info comes to light when and after they are about to leave office instead of before they go in office.
Wonder why?
History 100 years from now will certainly tell a different story about our times here on this ol earth.
WE might make the history of ROME look pretty good in comparison to the worldly wheeling and dealing we do.
Men spend 100 million of contributors dollars each to get a 4 year job paying less than a million a year.
Wonder why?
History 100 years from now will certainly tell a different story about our times here on this ol earth.
WE might make the history of ROME look pretty good in comparison to the worldly wheeling and dealing we do.
Men spend 100 million of contributors dollars each to get a 4 year job paying less than a million a year.