{"id":92,"date":"2009-09-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/kind-of-blue-1.html"},"modified":"2009-09-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:00:00","slug":"kind-of-blue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/kind-of-blue-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Kind Of Blue (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/colored%20only1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/colored%20only.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/sunglasses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/320\/sunglasses.jpg\" \/><\/a> <strong>America in the 1950&#039;s<\/strong>&#8211;All a matter of perspective. The war was over, suburbia was being invented and the American dream was being pursued&#8230;by some <\/p>\n<p>For black America, the 1950&#039;s were a decade of <strong>emergence<\/strong>. After 90 years of not being slaves and yet not being citizens either, something had to give. The dehumanization of separate water fountains, segregated schools, lynchings in the South, massive nihilism in the urban North and no voting rights gave rise to discontent. As Fannie Lou Hamer would say, sometimes your just <em><strong>&quot;sick and tired of being sick and tired.&quot;<br \/><\/strong><\/em><br \/>In 1954 racial segregation of schools was ruled unconstitutional. In 1955 Rosa Parks decided to stay seated. And in 1959 Miles Davis recorded <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind of Blue<\/span> <\/strong>and jazz has never been the same. Four years later, Martin Luther King Jr. called America to emerge, even better, to <strong>converge<\/strong> and America has never been the same either.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jazz anticipates, participates, senses the shift of the wind&#8230;listens<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Theology like jazz is not meant to be a series of static propositions but rather the job of a theologian (and everybody is a theologian!), is to sense current realities, anticipate the wind of God&#8230;to listen.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America in the 1950&#039;s&#8211;All a matter of perspective. The war was over, suburbia was being invented and the American dream was being pursued&#8230;by some For black America, the 1950&#039;s were a decade of emergence. After 90 years of not being slaves and yet not being citizens either, something had to give. 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