What are your impressions of benny goodman's first racially integrated band. how might you have handled the situation if you were the band leader?

Benjamin David Goodman, also known as Benny Goodman, was a musician, specialized in jazz music and the use of the clarinet and who integrated, in the 1930´s, at one of America´s peak moments of racial segregation and discrimination, one of the most succcesful racially combined bands of jazz music in the world. Not for nothing was Goodman known as the "King of Swing".

In all honesty, racial segregation, especially between white Americans and African Americans, has always seem a really ridiculous idea. Initiated on the premise, from really old times, that people whose skin is black, and whose ancestry comes from Africa itself, are less intelligent, or essentially inferior, to those of white skin and European ancestry, the only thing that has this ideal accomplished is to prove how ridiculous human beings can be. The reason? African American people are known for their fantastic abilities in music, especially in genres like blues, and jazz.

In my concept, Benny Goodman was smart enough to realize this and saw the potential of enlisting a racially combined band. So much so that he reached the top in popularity and people loved the songs from his band, regardless of whether the music was produced by an all-white, all-black, or an all-mixed group.

I would not have done anything different from what Benny Goodman did. I do not see the sense in racial discrimination, much less in an art that has shown time and again that it does not discriminate at all, and in which both white, and black people, have been equally talented and good at.