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So, I virgin yapped about it at the drop of a hat. So, here we are stuffing envelopes and I am yapping about virgin playing with this blues band, so I turn to the Congressman’s LA and I say “Do you like blues or jazz?” And he says “What do you mean?” He instantly sensed the assumption behind my question, which was “Well, you’re black- surely you like one or the other…” which was really, really naive and stupid of me. These are the preconceptions one carries away from Columbus, Georgia, I guess. Not virgin sensing what an ass I was being, I persisted “Well, do you like blues? or jazz?” And he, sensing an opportunity to impart a life lesson, said “What makes you think I like either one?” And I wasn’t about to say “Well, you’re black….and black people like Negro music, right?” but that WAS the implicit assumption in my question. I struggled to think of some OTHER way of saying “Well, you’re black…” and muttered some inanity just as it began to dawn on me that I was being presumptuous and that I was perhaps operating under some assumptions that might be kind of idiotic.
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