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To: MrLucky who wrote (7414)	9/9/2003 11:24:09 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793738

I didn't watch the debate. But if they are not going after each other, I would say that they have learnt their lesson from 1992 and are no longer following the Ted Kennedy/Jimmy Carter scenario.

To: MrLucky who wrote (7414)	9/10/2003 12:06:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793738

I know they're suppose to pander to their audience but this was too much. Were they "shucking and jiving?" The attempt by white performers to act like blacks at the Music Awards are sickening. An episode of "The Wire" made fun of white Drug Dealers trying to act like "Blacks." There seems to be no act a white liberal politician will not sink to while attempting to get the black vote. I run into this in the dance world. The "Lindy Hop,"(Jitterbug) and the "Cake Walk" were invented by blacks and adopted by whites. If you go back and watch the old movies, (I have most of them) you will see two different styles of Lindy Hop, white and black. When Lindy Hop was re-introduced in the 80s, the White instructors learned from the old black dancers, and tried to make the white students dance it like the blacks. Most can't. They look silly trying to. We ain't built the same. Not "loose" enough. Too "uptight." Since Lindy Hop today is danced almost exclusively today by whites, it finally led to some of the white dancers going back and studying the films of the white dancers in the 40s. Now the "white" style is taking over. It is a more erect style, and for those of you who understand, it looks more like "West Coast." Why no black dancers? They are all doing "Hip-Hop."