Dylan to Play at the White House

Dylan has been invited to play at the White House "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" it will be aired February 11 of this year. Along with Dylan will be great artist like Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifa, Jennifer Hudson and John Mellencamp just to name a few. In a situation like this I can not think of a better man to play at event like this besides Dylan. The songs that he has written about unfair treatment of blacks like; Only A Pawn in Their Game, Hollis Brown, and Blowing in the Wind have truly captured the unfair treatment of blacks at the time. Dylan has been instrumental in terms of music for Civil Rights. I truly think that Dylan was able to bring the truth of the Civil Rights to people that may not have been able to see it before. Through songs like Emmit Till you can feel the inequality that was felt through out the nation at this time. In terms of songs about Civil Rights there are very few non Dylan songs that I would include, maybe songs like Southern Man by Neil Young, but nothing compares to the catalog of songs that Dylan has written during that time. I think it is a great honor for him, and the fact that many young artists like John Legend will be there to see what a small Jewish boy from Minnesota can do for such an important movement in US history. “How many roads must a man walked down before you can call him a man” is a line that moves me today and I'm sure moved thousands in the 60’s.