(Say Goodbye) Soul Train and the '80s babies

With the passing of Don Cornelius yesterday, I found my Facebook feed flooded with links to James Brown, The Jackson 5, and Stevie Wonder, combined with talk about how important the man and Soul Train were to the '70s Black experience. That's all true, but isn't this post. I'll leave that for Questlove, who talks about it perfectly. I am not black, but I did watch a lot of Soul Train as a kid, and some of Don's style rubbed off on me. But the Pope of Soul himself once sa...

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