Here’s another lovely (and swingin’) African-American Spiritual with minority rights-conscious lyrics (“Ain’t no signs of hate, in my Father’s house… Folks all integrate, Ha, in my Father’s house…”) brought to the American mainstream by Harry Belafonte and The Ed Sullivan Show on March 29, 1964. After singing “Folks all integrate,” Belafonte breaks the fourth wall …
I have found myself once again coming to understand what really happened in Jamaica, in this case, Port Antonio. Ignorance is a kind of reverse (but reversable) amnesia. I am realizing the significance of how I fell right into the heart of the Mento scene and met the ghost Errol Flynn. Well not really. But really. …