Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Forms of Extreme Inbreeding and Forms of Music I Hate

In all of the years that I have spent looking at pedigrees and family trees of various American and Canadian brood-cow families and Holstein Artificial Insemination bulls, none I think, have such a tremendous inbreeding as the one I saw on the book the Invisible Man, with one of the secondary characters, Trueblood, who ended up having his own daughter pregnant WITH HIM AS FATHER.
Heck, I don't think that even the mighty Round-Oak Rag Apple Elevation, (see here and here)had such a tremendous inbreeding as this!!

I guess that a great deal of what we see here, is the symbolism of the degeneration that many African Americans went through, both morally and ethically, due to the fact that they were discriminated for such a long period of time. This degeneration is something that is very present in American culture today, and I don't think its going away any time soon, particularly due to the excessive popularity that Hip Hop has today throughout the world (see this). Not to mention that these kinds of scenes like the ones in the Invisible Man, are common themes to several rap songs, clearly an influence marked by this time period and by previous ones. Quite frankly, I have never understood why people like it so much especially those songs whose lyrics are so degenerative, and I have grown to despise the genre after all these years. Country will always make my day, rap will always ruin it.

Anyway, backing from a hot topic that many will disagree, the story relates back to a statue of Booker T. Washington, one of the famous African American writers who had influence back in the early 20th, century, its easy to deduce that the story takes place in none other than Tuskegee, Alabama, city were Lionel Richie was born and the Tuskegee Airmen formed in World War II. The Invisible Man picks up just after the events of the latter and ends up telling a story precurssor to the Civil Rights Movement. It will be interesting to see how the story of the Invisible Man, has more relations to the history of African Americans.

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