Motown musical is a hit

Patricia McCarthy:

There is a wonderful musical, Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, on stage in Los Angeles. It is a superb theatrical production. For those of us of a certain age, the music of the Temptations was the soundtrack of our youth.

From "My Girl" of 1964 to "Papa was a Rolling Stone" in 1972, the Temptations made their indelible musical mark on the 1960s. There were countless hits in between and many later. The Temptations differed from the surf and car songs of the Beach Boys and of course sounded nothing like the Beatles. They were the voice of the era all their own; the gospel-inspired sound of the South blended with the smooth, soul crossover R&B and the gritty urban sound of Detroit's blacks....
The left today revels in and promotes the ideal that America was and remains a racist nation. This was Obama's mantra over the eight years of his presidency despite his having been elected by a majority of white people. If so, how did the Temptations and their many, many gifted black musical colleagues become the fantastic celebrities they indeed became?

The Temptations, like Diana Ross and the Supremes, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, and the long list of other African-American musical groups and individuals (Aretha, Dionne Warwick, Nat King Cole, not to mention Lou Rawls and Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn preceding all of these by many years), were fabulously successful, popular with all Americans, popular around the world. And yet we Americans are continuously maligned as racists.
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The Ahmanson Theater where Ain't Too Proud is playing is packed every night for this show (as was every theater that performed Dreamgirls, the story of the Supremes, which debuted in 1981). Obviously, the audience is gloriously diverse. The cast is 99% black. The show gets a well deserved standing ovation after each performance.

And yet the left is out there each and every day, claiming that America is racist. It is not and has not been since the end of the Civil War that cost Americans 650,000 souls to defeat slavery. It was just those pesky and intolerant Southern Democrats who clung to their racist notions of their own superiority. Even they are gone, replaced by a Republican majority that is not obsessed with skin color.
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I remain a big fan of the Motown sound. It is much easier on my ears than the rap songs of today.  I enjoyed both the sounds and the choreography of these groups.  While I am not a big concert goer, I would be tempted if this show was at a nearby auditorium.  I enjoyed listening to all the singers listed by McCarthy.  I would add Otis Redding to the list too.  Dock of the Bay is still one of my favorites.