Chimpy was factually incorrect with his reference about jazz funerals

[zulchzulu]

From his pathetic, smirky, empty photo-op speech:

"In this place, there is a custom for the funerals of jazz musicians. The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery."

Actually, jazz funerals are not just for jazz musicians. They are a custom for people who have passed who either wanted to have that occur or were people of importance to the community, such as leaders, politicians, heros and such. It is also a tradition mostly carried on by black people exclusively. And they sure have had and will have many jazz funerals in the near future.

It's almost like Chimpy was saying black people are good dancers or something. The fucking asshole... nothing is sacred with him. He'd use the jazz funeral reference incorrrectly to further try to whitewash his failure.

[AspenRose]

1. "Funerals of jazz musicians?!"

He really said that???

What an idiot

*DR, who hopes to have a jazz funeral when she goes on*

[zulchzulu]

2. A short backgrounder...

"Jazz funerals, as Louis Armstrong once explained, are events in motion: "Funerals in New Orleans are sad until the body is finally lowered into the grave. After the brother was six feet underground the band would strike up one of those good old tunes, like "Didn't He Ramble?" And all the people would leave their worries behind. Once the band starts, everybody starts swaying from one side of the street to the other, especially those who drop in and follow the ones who have been to the funeral. These people are known as the "second line", and they may be anyone passing along the street who wants to hear the music".

http://www.writers.net/writers/books/26052

[MaineDem]

5. Lovely! He said the "second line" was the upbeat music

What a total fuckwit!

[Bumblebee]

3. He also sort of mispronounced "jazz" -- like he wasn't comfortable with

the word.

[zulchzulu]

6. I noticed that too

He pronounced it "jia-ass" or something. Yunno, the Devil's Music...

[bluedawg12]

4. He was so off, so staged with that hollywood back lighting

yet, the words he was saying didn't register in his eyes, only when he got to platitudes did he stay the course.

[B3Nut]

7. I saw that too....

Wondered where he pulled that "jazz musician" reference from...whoever wrote that speech hadn't a flying clue....

Todd in Beerbratistan

[grasswire]

8. I'm surprised he didn't....

....compare the rising again of New Orleans to the resurrection of Christ!

Here, incidentally, is a nice history of the Second Line tradition.

http://www.mardigrasdigest.com/Sec_2ndline/2ndline_history.htm

Today, white folk at trad jazz festivals attempt a pathetic second line when really moved by the music. That must be what the speech writer has seen. If he'd just go to the Potomac River Jazz Club's annual jazz picnic at Blob's Park on Saturday, he could have found a lot of jazz historians to advise him on this analogy.