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James Browns I am black and I am proud was. It was an affirmation
of self respect and it was a challenge to others to respect themselves and to respect him.
Brother, we can't quit until we get our share. Say it loud. I'm black and
I'm proud. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud, one more time - say it loud, I'm black
and I'm proud, huh.
Everybody was trying to think of what to say about Martin Luther King and
shocked about the situation in America, the civil rights movement. Everybody just wanted
to know how to conceptualized it and so when James Brown said say it loud I'm black and
I'm proud that's it, that's it so when they said everybody followed back - I'm black and
I'm proud.
The words where magical. I mean that was the ultimate emancipation.
ay it loud. I'm black and I'm proud. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
Every crisis is an opportunity he is one of the few people that took the
crisis of 1968 and turn it into an opportunity to really help generation of people.