🎶 2022-03-10 18:42:00 - Paris/France.
Umbongo ka-2004 othi “A Black American” kaSmokey Robinson uye waphinda wavela mva nje xa utitshala wayebambe umbongo weNyanga yeMbali yabaMnyama. Phakathi komdlalo omtsha, umenzi wengoma weMotown Records uthethe ngengqumbo yakhe kwigama elithi "African American" kunye nefuthe lombongo ohambelana namava amnyama Jonga.
“Ndicinga ukuba xa [usebenzisa igama elithi African-American], uyawakhanyela onke amagalelo abantu abamnyama abawenzileyo eMelika. Ndizithatha njengoMnyama waseMelika kwaye ndiyathanda ukubizwa ngokuba nguMnyama, kwaye uMnyama uye wachaswa njengombala kuyo yonke imbali ngabo babefuna ukuyichasa. Kwaye ke yaphalala kuluntu oluntsundu nakubantsundu. Kwaye nabantu abantsundu ngelo xesha babebizwa ngokuba bantsundu yayiluphawu lomlo […] NjengoMnyama wayengalunganga,” utshilo u-crooner oneminyaka engama-82 ubudala.
Emva koko uRobinson wanika umamkeli ngamnye ikopi kaWalter Milton noJoel Freeman Imbali emnyama 365: I-Akhawunti eBandayo yeMbali yaseMelika. Ukwathethe ngabantu abamnyama baseMelika kwimikhosi exhobileyo abangafeli amazwe aseAfrika kodwa endaweni yoko bafela kumazwe afana neMississippi, Georgia kunye neAlabama. “Sibe negalelo elikhulu eMelika kangangokuba kufuneka iqatshelwe […] Le yindlela endiziva ngayo ngokuba ngumntu ontsundu kwaye ndiyazingca ngokuzibiza [ndim] ukuba ndingumntu omnyama waseMelika,” wadanduluka watsho .
Umdlalo wokuqala (jonga inguqulelo ka-2020 ngasentla) wawubhalelwe isizini yesithathu yokugqibela Def Poetry Jam. Bukela udliwanondlebe olupheleleyo kunye noSmokey Robinson Jonga ngezantsi.
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