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And more ap england for you Here we go The

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fourth paragraph lines fifty one fifty three served primarily Teo

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do what Let's cruise to fifty one here and see

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you and it's saying to your class will be a

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clean him on iranian white folks in the blues come

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out but they don't know how i got there right

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Okay ma we hear you well At the end of

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the six paragraph the writer introduces up paradox That means

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to doc's is jazz is both a document of struggle

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and conflict but also a suggestion of something universally human

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It reflects america's troubled history but also might be a

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way of moving forward Yeah that's the same sentiment as

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ma rainey's quote white people hear and understand the blues

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But ignore or don't realise its historical context Well the

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quotation itself doesn't give any historical information So get rid

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of a not even the years that ma rainey was

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a classic blues queen as opposed to resolving the contradiction

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and be right there Ma rainey adds the author's ambivalence

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Feelings toward the genre so you sort of see by

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calling her a blues queen It's unlikely the others trying

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to criticize her especially since she agrees with rainey's point

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d well queen is a complimentary term at least if

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you ask beyonce so answer here is eat to emphasize

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the point made in the previous passage It's kind of 00:01:24.212 --> [endTime] linkage or linky or something like that

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