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Wynton Marsalis: Saving America’s Soul Kitchen

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

From the Wynton Marsalis fan club

This is an excellent article by Wynton Marsalis. It appeared in Time Magazine, September 12, 2005 Vol. 166 No. 11
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Favorite quote: “Forget about tolerance. What about embracing. This tragedy implores us to re-examine the soul of America. Our democracy from its very beginnings has been challenged by the shackles of slavery. The parade of black folks across our TV screens asking, as if ghosts, “Have you seen my father, mother, sister, brother?” reconnects us all to the still unfulfilled goals of the Reconstruction era. We always back away from fixing our nation’s racial problems. Not fixing the city’s levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation’s issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more.”

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