Luther, say no more. Love the 2015 Rembert Brown Grantland article http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/10-years-ago-we-lost-luther-greatest-performance/

Strong recco for this exhaustive book on the slave trade in North America. “

@michael harriot I refer people to the Ignatiev book you cite nearly weekly. Thanks for the great post
I had an American History class freshman year of College (1982) and the professor refer pejoratively to “an Irish pattern of reproduction”.

I heard the book’s author on the Intercepted podcast earlier this week.  https://theintercept.com/2017/10/11/intercepted-podcast-the-white-stuff/

I always use that first image when these subjects arise. Try a little Thomas Nast, father of American Political cartoons, and a true hater of the Irish Catholic immigrant. http://www.printmag.com/illustration/nast-irish/

Thanks for reducing an ancient, diverse musical culture to a nasty joke. Imagine if someone said the same thing about Jazz, Blues, Shirley Caesar, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, or Hip-Hop based on Coltrane’s unsteady intonation on the Soprano sax.