Reviewing a collection of new books by and about James Brown, as well as a multi-disc compilation of his music, in 1991, Gene Santoro - The Nation 's longtime music critic, wrote : In many ways, his life reflects in intensified form the contradictions many African-Americans feel about this country's promise even when they affirm the myth they're only partially included inSo there are his hard-hitting anthems like "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," his talk about payola as a method of financial redistribution between white station owners and their underpaid black deejays, the street-jive realism of his lyrics. There's his endorsement of Nixon and hobnobbing with Reagan and Bush.
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