Whilst on Kng Oliver, {I know I shouldn't since this is a boxing page, but the moderators are very lenient sometimes) I should have added that his star pupil, Louis Armstrong, whom he taught, and brought into his Orchestra, met him in his janatorial period and gave him $100.
Armstrong was going big at that time, (and $100 was nothing to him), although we only learn of this from Armstriong's biography, also how he loved Oliver, who treated him like a benevolent father, and taught him for free, gave him his very first horn, (how
I wish I had this horn) yet he says nothing about taking Oliver out of his abject life and giving him an easy job in his, Armstrong's own band, and making sure he was in a good, comfortable home, to die in peace, in his last days...NO NOTHING like that........because he just gave him a hundred dollars, talked a bit about old times and walked away, ignoring him from then on.
So in fact, poor old Langford, who had it so tough in the years after he retired, in his last years had it exactly the reverse of that other great Negro figure, who's stature was so great that it made all colour-blind, being absorbed by the white population all over the world as well.
I hope this is printed.
You're an idiot. Yout agenda is clear. I hope the moderators pick up on this as well.
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