🌸 Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Fats Domino, 2011. 🌟 Johnny Cash, holding baby, c, early ‘70s. 🍀 Roy Orbison, Bo Diddley, and Carl, 1987. 💎 Carl Perkins, c. mid ‘80s. 🔎 Daryl Davis & Jerry Lee Lewis, early ‘80s.
In the time of my research, I’d known of Daryl. He performed with and was friends with Jerry Lee. And he converted KKK members by befriending them. A week ago, Misha Collins posted a live stream to his YouTube, “A Conversation on Racial Inequality & Injustice.”
What Daryl said, in his last share, stood out to me. He said ignorance can be cured with education, exposure, and peaceful conversation. It sounds good but is it possible?
When I started my “12 Days of Christmas” tradition, I shared posts of black musicians on my Tumblr. To name a few, Howlin’ Wolf, James Brown, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and Chuck Berry. I had a handful of followers but in a few days, I lost 10. I chalked it up to bots, but some of the profiles looked real.
It seemed like when I’d post about a black musician, I’d lose followers. I don’t care for numbers. It’s that instant “unfollow” reaction, someone has, at the mere sight of a black person. That bothers me. Yet, I made excuses. When I posted an edit “Cool Breeze,” I stopped. It was dedicated to Kimbel’s appearance on “Moonshiners.” I hadn’t lost followers for fan edits of white guys, so that moment I knew.
The people who unfollowed were racist. It didn’t matter that Kimbel’s a sweet guy. That James Brown is the God Father of Soul. It didn’t matter what any black musical artist achieved or how good a person they were. They judged them, solely for their skin color, and probably think they’re better than them too. That infuriates me.
So, I question is it possible to cure ignorance? I’m hoping, to contribute to that process, with this post. Many love Jerry Lee, John, Roy, and Carl. So, I hope a person who thinks they’re better than a black person, asks themselves why? When the person they admire and respect, didn’t.
But I suppose if Daryl could bound with a KKK member, over Jerry Lee’s piano playing…Anything is possible, even curing ignorance.
Carl Perkins, photos by J.T. Phillips, for The Tennessean, published Feb 5, 1969. (Edited from free preview articles, Newspapers.com)
For Veterans Day, I’d like to share one of my favorite stories of Carl. The following was paraphrased from “Disciple in Blue Suede Shoes,” pg 107 - 111.
On January 9th, 1969, Carl performed with Johnny Cash’s group in Saigon, at the Long Binh Air Force Base. Around 5 in the afternoon, they heard their first sounds of war, Carl said, “big guns boomed in the distance and carried on through the night.” None slept well, Carl lay awake, listening to the far-off booms and talking to God. “Oh, God, why does this war have to be fought? Please, Lord, help us get out of it soon. So many innocent people are losing their lives.”
While there Carl visited, played and sang for wounded soldiers. “My heart was touched when the young soldiers tried to smile their appreciation. Some of them looked much too young to be there. But how blessed I was by the experience.” That night, he thought, prayed, and was sure God had a job for him to do, the next day he asked Colonel Castle for a tape recorder, to record conversations with the boys to send back to their families, so they’d know they were okay, the Colonel agreed and Carl set onto record.
Leaving Saigon, he returned home to a celebration, “Carl Perkins Day” that lasted for a week, when things settled, he and his wife Valda began calling families, he said, “I didn’t realize how much hearing the voices of their boys would mean to them until I heard their weeping.” A mother cried, “that’s really Danny’s voice. We didn’t know if he was even still alive. I think God you called.” Carl and Valda listened, prayed, and cried with the families too, saying, “It was in helping that we ourselves were helped.”
Six months later, at show in Montgomery, Alabama, a stage guard informed Carl, some people came to see him, adding “They won’t go away until they talk to you.” Carl went to the stage entrance, he saw the boy, he talked with from the hospital, he was from Montgomery and was with his girlfriend and parents. Carl recalled, “They wanted to thank me in person, but it was I who thanked them for the blessing I had received. I got seats for them beside the stage, and as I performed I looked over at their happy reunion. My voice almost broke.”
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on average an adult has about 4.5-5.5 liters of blood circulating in their body. a female mosquito, when completely full, can hold up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood in their abdomen depending on the species. if we take the average of both (5 liters & 0.0055 milliliters), it would take around 909,090 mosquitos to equal the amount of blood in a single human. although there isnt an exact number of the entirety of the mosquito population, we can use fermi estimation. there is about 57 million square miles of total land area on earth, while say 50 million square miles are habitable for mosquitos. with a rough of estimate of 1 mosquito per 50 square feet (overestimate due to area and time of year). after multiplying the numbers and fixing the units, there is a rough estimated 70 quadrillion mosquitos. theoretically, if a vampire lived in a mosquito dense area, such as brazil, indonesia, malaysia, thailand, etc, and could sustainably hunt around a million mosquitos to fill themselves every time they needed to feed, there would be enough mosquitos to survive on due to their large population and fast reproduction.
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