Coleman Hughes: belief

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…Do you think there are any common patterns of political views amongst black jazz musicians? Obviously, a lot of diversity, but on average, what do you observe? On average, black jazz musicians that I know are frankly probably more in the conservative Democrat domain than many people would assume. This is not always widely talked about, but black Americans in general are the most conservative wing of the Democratic base, in the sense that almost all black people vote Democrat, but there’s quite a high degree of social conservatism, conservative viewpoints on things like immigration and so forth. If you’re white and you have those views, you go to the Republican Party. If you’re black and you have those views, you probably don’t go to the Republican Party; you probably just vote Democrat with basically a conservative ideology — and that’s a third of black Americans. I would say that there’s a lot of black jazz musicians that fall into that category, quiet as it’s kept. In black hip-hop, there seems to be a lot of gender conflict and gender divides. Is that reflecting something real, or it’s just an aesthetic in the art? What do you make of that issue?…

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