Don Cornelius Death: 5 Iconic 'Soul Train' Moments (Video)

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On topic: I was a young girl when Soul Train started. Before that, the dance parties on television were all white kids. It was very segregated. I remember thinking how awful it was that ethnic kids weren't allowed to dance in the studio, obviously. Dick and his dance party were all lily white. Everybody knew that the best dancers were African-Americans. In that era, if your school didn't have many black students, they didn't show up at school dances, preferring to go to private parties with friends instead. I asked my black girlfriend why she didn't come to the dance, even though there were no black young men in our tiny school. She just replied that she preferred to go to dances at the private homes of her friends. She and her sister were both top students and she was a cheerleader, but she stayed clear of anything but clubs and sports as extracurricular activities. We went shopping together and it was obvious that she didn't want to wear anything that made her lovely chocolate skin look darker. She had great taste in clothes and was very physically gifted, agile and quick in games. She had the greatest dimples going! She wore her hair relaxed in a pretty style. Her name was Jewel, and she was one. When Soul Train came on, it was very exciting to know that even though segregated, at last African-American kids were getting equal treatment! They were wonderful dancers on the whole, but there are dorks who can't dance well in every population of people. Finally, Dick opened up his American Bandstand up to diversity and everybody was dancing, though on the whole it was like with like: oriental kids with oriental kids, blacks with blacks, whites with whites, hispanics with hispanics, Greeks with Greeks. So you might say that this guy was the first person to integrate television for kids like me. It was all for his own people, but so what? the kids were clean-cut, good looking, having a great time, and really cutting a rug! I also enjoyed the music, which had a slightly different rhythm from what American Bandstand was doing. Eventually, everyone was influenced by everyone else, and it all melded together and crossed over. I was always very uncomfortable with racism and separation. I hated it! I wanted everyone to just actual normal and mingle together in the same neighborhoods instead of having different area of town where they lived. Racist neighbors once called up my father when we were selling our first house because he showed it to a black couple. They told him not to sell to blacks because it would lower their property values. My father was furious, and told the callers that "I'll sell my house to anyone I da..ned well please!" and slammed the telephone down really hard! I was never more proud of my dad than at that moment! Don Cornelius, you have my utmost respect and admiration. I feel so very sad that he felt he needed to exit the world in such a painful way for himself and for his loved ones. What a trauma! Please, nobody do this!