The New York Times shared a real STINKER of a piece about jazz musicians claiming that people used to think of jazz musicians as white men.
Stop laughing.
WE’RE SERIOUS.
They totally wrote that.
Had to be a millennial, right? Jazz music was all but created by black people, specifically one Buddy Bolden who was far from a white man. Heck, a quick Google would have saved the NYT a good deal of heart and headache but OH NO …
What historically illiterate ass people "used to think of jazz musicians as white men"?? The entire genre was *invented* by black folk… ?https://t.co/53a58skQ1q pic.twitter.com/bkoj34NECK
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) October 28, 2018
Dumb, right?
They deleted it …
We've deleted an earlier tweet to this article that was poorly framed. We apologize. https://t.co/U1nuQMu3Zk
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2018
But not before Twitter dragged them relentlessly.
And poorly framed? K.
Dear @nytimes – What The FU#(@)@)#)@)@? https://t.co/WadQ1yF1qM pic.twitter.com/QtF9h1IoHF
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) October 28, 2018
I'll bet anyone $1000 right now that a millennial wrote this. https://t.co/7fYyu5RpMM
— Ordy's Amish Pumpkin Spice Butter (@OrdyPackard) October 28, 2018
"People used to think of mariachi musicians as transgendered Asians, but…" https://t.co/MZHFkG1IZx
— BOO! CalCoconut (@TheCalCoconut) October 28, 2018
Actual EL OH EL.
So much ignorance! Shouldn’t “journalists” study a couple of years of history? Old school jazz was in Armstrong’s era. Boogie-Woogie (yes) followed with likes of Albert Ammons. Things started to get cool around Art Tatum’s time. Count & Duke & then Bird…all Black and all jazz!
— Jimmy D (@JimmyDrenn) October 28, 2018
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Psh, expecting journalists to do some research? For shame.
If only the person who typed out this tweet had googled “famous jazz musicians” pic.twitter.com/hgvSEkhhNM
— A-A-ron that sketch done messed up my life (@darrenstains) October 28, 2018
Miles Davis … HELL YEAH.
Umm… I see you did absolutely no research about Jazz before writing this. Maybe try googling next time, to get an idea. pic.twitter.com/pma9chC4Ag
— K8Heart86 (@k8heart86) October 28, 2018
See? Google is your friend, NYT.
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