| CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast |
 Nov. 13,
2008
Ep.38 : Pandora Radio
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| CD Baby artist J.G. Boccella prompts national diversity dialogue |
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PITTSBURGH – December 19, 2004. A recent Gallup survey found vast gulfs between different groups' perceptions of how minorities are treated today.
Seventy-six percent of white respondents think that blacks are treated "very fairly" or "somewhat fairly," but only 38 percent of blacks agree with them; nearly one-third, in fact, say that members of their race are treated "very unfairly."
Why is there such a disparity in these numbers? What is the source of this “disconnect” between races?
CD Baby artst J.G. Boccella thinks music may be the medium for sparking authentic dialogue across lines of race.
His “Divided States of America” CD - http://www.cdbaby.com/boccella - approaches the subject from a variety of angles, some personal, others historical, but always with a passion and ear for story.
The songs explore the complexity of America's racial divides, literal and perceptual, and pose new questions about how America will come to grips with its legacy in the nation's third century.
Boccella says of songs such as "Denial",
"Unbroken Chain", and "Propaganda", “Before we can truly come together as a nation, I believe we must first be willing to look at what keeps us divided.“
Check out J.G. Boccella's "The Divided States of America" on CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/boccella
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I used to work for a company that allowed every employee in my crew to drive a company truck to and from work with their own corporate gas cards.
All of those employees lived less than ten miles
from our designated meeting place where we would meet and then drive to the work site for that contract term. Myself on the other hand lived over sixty miles from the designated meeting place; I had to drive my own car, pay for my own gas and get up twice as early for less pay. But the W9 form in any discrimination court can be presented by the employer to show the judge-point of law that all these employees on the same pay grade scale recieve the same hourly wage. My point this morning is the perception to the question is closely related to the personal underlying experiences of any given individual. Some folks in that situation will tell you that they're being treated fairly because they're just that numb and blind to those underlying injections of the daily doses of inequality.
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I agree. thanks for posting that.
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