COLORED PEOPLES' PREROGATIVE

"COLORED PEOPLES' TIME" PREROGATIVE "Colored people's time" "CP time" was a whimsically caustic comment on the cultural tendency, indeed--tradition --of African Americans to arrive off-time, around time, even well past the time, set for the start of an event or even work . In fact, the tendency or tradition is not limited to "diasporal" Africans, but the indigenous Africans also do it. Well , since colored people created the calendar from thousands of years of stellar, lunar, solar, earthly observations and annotations in Ethiopia and Egypt , whence time was derived as graphically depicted divine concept and cosmic fact; and from the calendar came cosmic magnitudes like years , decades, centuries; and their opposition: months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, it is but fair that the inventors of "time" exercise the prerogative of play! Our musicians certainly played "all that jazz:" blues, pop, rock and roll, gospel, spirituals, boogie woogie, zydeco, concert, rhythm and blues, hip-hop, ragtime, ballad, opera, and every variation of the same. All are based on time and timing in concert with tune and tuning. So, when next waxing whimsically on the anomaly of colored people's time, think upon their prerogative !