Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, January 1, 2016
EDDIE GRIFFIN, BILL COSBY AND DADDY
In viewing KC's own, comedian Eddie Griffin, do his uniquely peculiar spiel on the current Bill Cosby imbroglio, below, I was struck by his characterization of the drug-culture of that era, my era, and many of yours' era, as well! During the drug culture of the 1970s-'80s, was when many of these sexual trysts are alleged to have occurred with a string of too- long-reticent females.
Whatever may become of the Dr. Bill Cosby's criminal case in Pennsylvania, or of his civil cases elsewhere, Griffin's comments brought to mind remembrances from concerts that I attended in that frothy era of protest, political ferment, Vietnam, and Panthers:
"'Mugs' was getting higher than a 'mug' up in them 'mugs'!"
Joints were being passed up and down the aisles and smoked, communally and convivially; sometimes coming from both ends of the aisles and front and back of the aisles! Smoke-ins, my friends!
My daddy even told me that one year, when he and mama had driven up to KC from St. Louis, for a then-popular KOOL JAZZ FESTIVAL, during the early 1970s, with some relatives, that such a joint had passed up and down the aisle. When I asked him if he had "hit it," and passed it on, he smiled and said: "Whichever way that the wind blows is cool with me!" I laughed uproariously aloud!
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