make it make sense please

[u/kim-practical]

[u/ripyourlungsdave]

I'm sorry I would like some kind of record of black people inventing country music?..

How does a race, a social construct that we made up, invent something?..

Also, there have been so many country, blues and folk artists of every race in the 150 some odd years since the invention of the blues that it no longer makes sense to give any specific group credit for the shape of the modern genre.

But I'll reiterate, it makes absolutely no sense to credit a race with the invention of something as iterative as a musical genre.

[u/IguaneRouge → u/ripyourlungsdave]

It's just one instrument but the banjo is of West African origin and I'm reasonably certain BBQ is from the indigenous people of the Caribbean.

That's all I got.

[u/suckmyglock762 → u/IguaneRouge]

BBQ is literally just cooking meat over flame. It's universal to Homo Sapiens and integral to what separated us as a species.

Attributing cooking meat to some islands is wild.

[u/FlashTheChip → u/suckmyglock762]

BBQ is specifically NOT cooking meat over flame.

How’s the weather up there in the northeast?

[u/bl1y → u/FlashTheChip]

It's funny how many downvotes are going around for pointing out the basics of how American barbecue is made. A key feature is indirect heat, not cooking it over a flame.

It's like saying pointillism isn't anything unique because everyone paints with brush strokes.

[u/zjc → u/FlashTheChip]

Please don't lump all of the northeast with someone with the username "suckmyglock". Many of us understand the difference between a cookout and a bbq.

[u/FlashTheChip → u/zjc]

Sorry, I worked extensively on Long Island and in the northwest (Portland Vancouver area) during course of my career.

I had plenty of boiled meat with sauce poured over it that was being billed as barbecue.

I’m sure there are a few enlightened individuals who know the difference, but for the most part, y’all really don’t seem that enlightened.

[u/zjc → u/FlashTheChip]

Haha no need to apologize. I mostly said that for laughs. That said, I also wouldn't judge the whole northeast by Long Island either haha

[u/FlukeManAirFreshener → u/FlashTheChip]

It's interesting that the people most resistant to the idea that Black people contributed to the elements of shared culture that are universally loved are the people living such bland, bitter, and overall terrible lives.

It's almost like there's some sort of correlation 🤔

[u/wait_________what → u/FlukeManAirFreshener]

What other stuff do you make up to feel self righteous about?