Family of Johnny Cash on Charlottesville

[bigtree]

twitter.com/jaketapper/status/898147443950444544

[MariaCSR]

1. Peace to the Cash family

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Great man, great musician. Nt

[AllyCat]

3. Great family!

[SusanaMontana41]

26. WORD. "Folsom Prison" has one of the greatest riffs EVER.

[oswaldactedalone]

4. Well Done,

Cash Family, well done!

[gademocrat7]

5. Bravo, Cash family.

[hibbing]

6. Lovely

Since he was "country" I did not come to appreciate him until I was much older and the more I learned about him, the more my respect and admiration for him grew.

Peace

[Luz]

7. The man in black.

[SusanaMontana41]

27. GREAT SONG.

It's in permanent rotation on my iPod.

[disillusioned73]

8. That's how you do it..

Mr. Cash would be proud.. Love Johnny Cash...

[warmfeet]

9. I always loved his music and

always respected the person.

[madokie]

10. Awesome

I remember when Johnny Cash first hit the scene way back in the '50s. He was awesome then and always was and his family still is.

Bless the Cash Family

The Man is Black

Peace

[Paladin]

11. Thanks, Cash family. We needed that.

And God bless and keep Johnny Cash, a great artist and a great champion of humanity.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Beautiful.

I am glad to learn all of that about the Cash family.

[oasis]

13. Cash was an interesting individual. Good to see this about him. nt

[democratisphere]

14. Now that is a legacy to be proud of Johnny Cash!

[spanone]

15. Johnny would have kicked those nazis asses

[Initech]

16. Johnny Cash is awesome. Nazis aren't.

[Phentex]

17. Everyone needs to speak out!

This was so wonderful to read. People need to hear others speaking out against this hate.

[argyl]

18. What a great response and tribute to a great man.

Last edited Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:37 PM - Edit history (2)

Posted by daughter Rosanne, a fine musician in her own right.
It made me sick to see that SOB wearing a shirt with Johnny's name on it.

[IronLionZion]

19. Love is a burnin' thing,

And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire.

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
As the flames went higher,
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.

The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the fire went wild.

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.

[90-percent]

29. One of music history's great missed opportunities

Johnny performing live with Frank Zappa on the 88 tour. Johnny's wife was sick so Johnny couldn't make it, but they played the song anyway. Both great Americans artistically and morally.

Start the vid about 4:20, unless you like zappa instrumentals.

-90% Jimmy

[syringis]

20. I love his songs

I don't know much his life.

I loved the movie "Walk the line"

I felt he was a nice person, having empathy and being compassionate.

[rufus dog]

21. when I saw that guy I figured they Cash family would be pissed

Asshole had no clue about JC, not any of them.

[hamsterjill]

22. It is so great that they spoke up.

Thank you for your courage and conviction, Cash family. Appreciate you all!!!

[rurallib]

23. Sounds like the Johnny Cash I remember

helluva person and musician.

[cwydro]

24. Wow! Good for them! I saw that pic during the weekend - made me sick.

K and R!

[PatrickforO]

25. Good for them.

Johnny Cash was a good man, and certainly not a hater.

[SJMULE]

28. Just saw Social Distortion on tour.

They do a fine cover "Ring of Fire". Mike Ness their lead singer made sure the audience knew he thinks Trump is a POS with a picture Trump as a clown on stage and his words to that effect.

[LostOne4Ever]

30. Awesome response! Nt

[workinclasszero]

31. RIP brother John

You raised up a fine family it's plain to see.

[progressoid]

32. !!!

[LudwigPastorius]

33. John R. Cash has a message for Nazis.

[flibbitygiblets]

34. Polo T-shirts, your move!

[kimbutgar]

35. You know Johnny Cash's first wife was African American

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

37. If so, it doesn't appear that she identified as such.

Leaders of the National States' Rights Party, a white supremacist group in Alabama, seized on the photo, which, when reproduced in grainy newsprint, made Vivian look dark-skinned and possessed of facial features some considered African American. Whether outraged by the apparent miscegenation or eager to get back at him for his protest stance in the song "Ira Hayes" (Native Americans were also a target of white supremacists), the group reprinted the photo in its newspaper the Thunderbolt and undertook an aggressive campaign against Cash.

The group urged its readers to boycott Cash's recordings and referred to Cash's "mongrelized" children.

Fearing a backlash among fans, especially those in the South, Holiff launched a counteroffensive. He contacted Vivian's father, Tom Liberto, asking for a copy of Vivian's marriage certificate —which would state her race as Caucasian — and a history of her bloodlines. Liberto sent him the marriage certificate and a letter in which he detailed Vivian's Italian, Dutch and English heritage. The material was sent to the Thunderbolt.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/12/entertainment/la-et-ms-johnny-cash-calif/4

[kimbutgar]

43. I had relatives myself that passed for white

My grandmother was Irish looking with blue eyes. One of her sisters passed and they ignored each other on the street. I saw that picture she looks like a "passé du blanc".

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

44. Easily believable. Though, Vivian's looks seem to vary a lot between photos. True for most

people, but especially from what I've seen, for her.

[kimbutgar]

45. Looks like some of my relatives

[Honeycombe8]

36. Amazing. I'm so proud of them! And proud I have the complete CD set of his songs!

Like millions of others, I LOVE Johnny Cash!

[Alice11111]

38. Thank you to the family. I noticed that person in that.shirt.

I'll always love his music.

[Skittles]

39. he would be so proud of them

[Warren DeMontague]

40. Not surprised. Good on them for speaking up.

That's what JC would have wanted, for sure.

[Stinky The Clown]

41. Thank you posting that. It is crystal clear the kind of man he was when you do no more . . .

. . . . than observe the actions of his children.

You done good, Johnny. We sure do miss you.

[colsohlibgal]

42. Big Thanks To This Amazing Family

Reading that kind of made my day. We have a lying racist sexist serial liar fraud in the White House. We are the joke of the world.

Of course if we were like other democratic nations, where the person with the most votes win, we would not be in this mess.

[Upthevibe]

46. Thank you so, so much to The Cash family. They're just GOOD PEOPLE!

[lpbk2713]

47. Thanks.

I didn't have to be told.

I knew it was carrying Cash's name through the mud.