****Mingus the person; he held his tongue for no one, and if he had gone south, everyone knew that he would have come back in a pinebox.********
Spare me, Please. And listen to the spoken intro to the tune I referenced. He sounded like an idiot!! Talking about concentration camps in the USA, while in Europe!!!! Give me a break!! I wondered what the Europeans thought as they heard him. He needed to bone up on his history.
I said once before, that he is very political correct. I have a couple of his interviews on CD. He always says the right(correct) thing.
Emmett Till was a Kid. Mingus was a grown man. There were millions of black folks, living just fine in this place that he was so afraid of. Including me.
And you got the Till story wrong.
Other than that, we are in complete agreement. :)
Cheers