00:00Do you think you've lost by being born black in a white country?
00:04No, I don't look at it that way.
00:08The greatest influence in jazz of all time, Louis Armstrong.
00:14Jazz almost stems from Louis Armstrong.
00:21Anybody who has uttered a sound on American radio,
00:26it's because of Louis Armstrong's innovations.
00:33He never would come out publicly, but at home he had his opinions.
00:38I've heard recordings of Pops just talking.
00:41He understood there was a battle in this country.
00:45I don't have no flag rather than a black flag.
00:50There's a rumor that you invented scat singing.
00:52It came to me just like that.
00:57To be black in those days.
01:00The discrimination was unbelievable.
01:02Be so...
01:04His own inner dignity was able to make him prevail.
01:08Over all these awful conditions he worked with.
01:12What did I do?
01:14He was the first black movie performer to have his name above the title.
01:20I do...
01:21He was trying to use his music to reform and lead the country closer to his higher ideals.
01:28Arkansas had decided to make its own laws on the subject of integration.
01:32Louis said Ike and the government could go to hell.
01:34Everybody was astonished, but privately, he expressed stuff like that all his life.
01:40My only sin
01:42All over the world
01:43Is in my skin
01:46He had the respect
01:47They left with you
01:48And the love of millions
01:50And spoiled you too
01:52What did I do?
01:55What more can any man ask for?
01:57To be so black and blue
02:00Yeah
02:01Yeah
02:02Yeah
02:02Yeah
02:02Yeah
02:03Yeah
02:03Grazie a tutti.
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