This blog started as one thing then took me down a journey of memory lane.
I was a VISTA in the summer of 1967 in San Francisco.
I see many energetic similarities between the life of Al jolson and the role he played in healing the Black experience in America.
Decades later, during the 60;s I was drawn to the black experience on campus. Then in the summer of love, 1967, I was in San Francisco at Parks JOb Corps Center.
George Foreman was there at the time before he came into prominence in the Olympics.
It is late at night. I am on the trail of something...
As metaphor of mutual suffering
Jazz historians have described Jolson’s blackface and singing style as metaphors for Jewish and black suffering throughout history. Jolson’s first film, The Jazz Singer, for instance, is described by historian Michael Alexander as an expression of the liturgical music of Jews with the "imagined music of African Americans," noting that "prayer and jazz become metaphors for Jews and blacks."[16]:176 Playwright Samson Raphaelson, after seeing Jolson perform his stage show, "Robinson Crusoe," stated that "he had an epiphany: 'My God, this isn’t a jazz singer,' he said. 'This is a cantor!'" The image of the blackfaced cantor remained in Raphaelson’s mind when he conceived of the story which led to The Jazz Singer.[17]:502
Upon release of the film, the first full-length sound pictu
In 1949, Al Jolson made a personal appearance tour to promote "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to "The Jolson Story." Here he appears live at Soldiers Field in Chicago. For some reason, when the newsreel camera man switched to his close-up lens, something must have gone wrong because all we gaet after the first 4 bars are still photos while Jolson sings in the background.
I have been having some extradinary healing experiences with my Jewish roots the last few weeks. My personal life mimics some of what I see here in the film, "The Jazz Singer..."
AL JOLSON SINGS MAMMY IN THE JAZZ SINGER
June 20 ,2012
What was the real story of Al Jolson?
wikipedia....
PAUL POBERSON...
JUST MY IMAGINAITON
I WAS MADEE TO LOVE HER
GEORGE FOREMAN
He was a Parks Job Corps Center when I was a VISTA
I read about him in the newspaper there, but never met him.
it was the summer of 1967.
Story here__
Charles Atkins, Reform Alabama...
One seventeen-year-old boy who had been placed in a Job Corps program in Oregon. Because he was so incorrigible, he was then transferred to the Parks Job Corps Center near Pleasanton, California. One employee of the center, former boxer Charles "Doc" Broadus, taught the young man how to box. Who was this young man? Soon the entire world would know the name George Foreman.
Doc Broadus, one of boxing’s living legends, was born in Alameda, CA on October 18th, 1919. He found boxing through street fighting, and learned from Jack Blackburn, Joe Louis’ trainer. He was undefeated through 100 amateur bouts, and was the all Army lightweight champ in 1942. Doc served in the Army during World War II, and saw action in both Europe and Africa. After the war, he coached boxing in the Army. He fought professionally as well, winning his first 24 fights before his first loss, and retiring from the ring, as he puts it, ‘on his own terms.’ Doc, "The Godfather of Boxing," lives in Las Vegas, NV, currently, where he teaches kids boxing, trying to help them escape the gangs and crime he escaped as a youth.
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