Account Quincy Jones, the great music producer of the 20th century, who as a child in South Chicago didn’t see a white man until he was 11 years old. He says that blacks at that time never appeared in the school books and that, without those references, blacks did not know who they were. He tells it in a magnificent documentary about his life that he broadcasts Netflix, in which he clears the doubts of how that boy who grew up as a gangster in the streets became a legend when he discovered that only through music were blacks free. Quincy see in Ray Charles, on Dinah Washington, on Louis Armstrong o en Count Basie the triumph of his race. And that’s why he fought to show that his genius was projected onto talents like Michael Jackson’s, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder o Will Smith. Music and blacks have saved each other throughout history, in a communion that has freed them from the slavery of centuries. Quincy tells it when he remembers and remembers how in the 50s black gangs traveled the United States to animate the gambling dens and the driver had to be a white man because only he was allowed to enter the restaurants in the middle of the road. . On that road there were images of blacks hanging from the rope and black men threatened to stand out. That is why Quincy Jones’ endeavor has been to show that the best in the history of music have been those blacks who did not appear in textbooks. I think about it as I read the news that in the United States the police have killed four black men this month.
