Steven, thank you so much for joining us. You also can write to us Stepman: We are now joined by Steve Soukup, the senior commentator, vice president, and publisher of the Political Forum and independent research provider, and also the author of a new book “ The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business.” If you like what you hear, please leave a review. All of our podcasts can be found at /podcasts. “The Daily Signal Podcast” is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play, and Stitcher. Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.
The Department of Homeland Security says illegal border crossings are going to reach the highest amount in two decades.Soukup joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how activists have hijacked and twisted the purpose of many of the world’s largest companies to serve left-wing ends, and why Americans need to be concerned about it. “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to more or less make ready the path for the revolution,” says Stephen Soukup, author of the new book “ The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business.” But for the most part, black people could only be found behind the scenes, writing many recorded hits but receiving little money, fame or credit for their work.Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? Johnson, the first black person ever recorded, who became known as “The Whistling Coon” for his ragtime whistling starting in 1890, and vaudevillians George Walker and Bert Williams, who recorded a variety of songs at the turn of the 20th century. There were a few early exceptions: George W. Recording equipment-still in its infancy-was bulky, expensive, and entirely owned by white people, and white people didn’t listen to black music except for vaudeville songs that were sung by white people in blackface. But discrimination and income inequity meant that nearly no black artists were recorded. And though they documented and celebrated some of the best black music of their day, from blues to vaudeville to jazz, race records didn’t always benefit African-Americans.Īt the turn of the 20th century, black Americans performed in all sorts of musical genres: ragtime, vaudeville, all-black orchestras. That’s because race records were sold in stores and advertised in publications that catered to African-Americans.
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Record Rendezvous in Cleveland, Ohio specialized in selling “race music,” which was early rock and roll.Ī black person might own a shelf full of records by groundbreaking artists like Ma Rainey, Jelly Roll Morton or Duke Ellington, all of whom became best-selling artists on so-called “race records.” But a white person might have no idea who any of those artists were, though they had sold thousands of copies.
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