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I'm like the white base drummer in "Drum Line."
Remember him? He said, "I just love black people!"
I think he was one of those rare few: a black person born into a white body, which is why he could drum so well.
My best friend in high school was a white drummer who had really good chops. One day we went to this club in Perth Amboy, where this black band was really cooking, and they let my buddy, Noel, sit in. He did the best he could and they were all smiling at him when the set was done. He made the mistake of saying, "you know, guys, I wish I was black." and they all looked at him like he was crazy.
All my life, it's been like that. In the Army they kicked me and all my black friends out of this MP unit because we didn't fit in. Sent us to infantry to die in Vietnam.
