"All Shook Up" Chapter #1

As I was reading "All Shook Up" I thought it was interesting how white people liked black music but yet they would always discriminate against them.  It is amazing how some stores would not even carry their music but yet white youth were willing to consume them.  The markets did not care about the money; they had their pride before it.  People from the white areas could have opened night clubs and made money but they chose not to. Instead white people would go to the black neighborhoods to go to the clubs.  I think it is amazing how music little by little brought both the blacks and the whites together.  Even in this era teenagers are more open minded than their parents.  For example, teenagers see homosexuals as something normal when on the other hand we have the parents not accepting it as good.

"Between 1940 and 1960, three million blacks left the states of the Old Confederacy.  The percentage of blacks living on farms dropped from 35 to 8; the percentage living in cities grew from 49 to 73.  Most of the migrants were young" (11).  This proves to me that even if discrimination was happening during this time the youth were more open minded and wanted to succeed.  This is why they left to the cities looking for a better life.  This actually worked.  A lot of black radio stations were opened, giving the blacks an opportunity. 
By the mid-50s, 21 radio stations were all black.