The Late, Legendary, Godfather of Soul!

Bares his own!

Adapted from Jet Magazine, May 8, 2006.

And so, Mr. James Brown, who came to see us all in I Corps, Vietnam, back in the Spring of 1968 lets fly:

"Some Jewish cat told me I wasn't Black enough."

"Some Jewish cat told me I wasn't Black enough.

"I can't tell him he's not Jewish enough.

"I can't tell a Latino that he's not Latino enough.

"I wrote that song [Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud] because I saw Black people running away from everything.

"They wanted to be Negro, they wanted to be light-skinned, high yellow.

"God made people in all colors."

Basically, I remember his radio message to us all, broadcast out of Da Nang AFRTS (or whatever) as a simple straight - forward one, much like the one we've quoted above.