JFK’s Profile in Cowardice (1961), Marvin Gaye’s Greatest Hit (1971), George Washington, Frustrated Enslaver (1796), Can’t Repeal an Anti-Racist Law? Then Just Try to Forget About It. (1951) Blacklist Victim Lives to Laugh at Witchhunters (1956)
In the first years of the war, it was more than coincidental that the frontline fighters were disproportionately Black. Still, the Pentagon was willing to tolerate Black soldiers only inasmuch as they forswore cultural expressions of Blackness.
The unresolved, discordant elements make this album truly timeless – that, and the fact that too few of its concerns have been addressed since 1971.
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