Under the Hood: Freddie Stone on Sly and the Family Stone’s Message

Sly Stone’s brother Freddie was one of the co-founders of the Family Stone, which was an actual family, two brothers and a sister. African-American, they were raised to see the world in rainbows. Freddie Stone remembers.

“My mom and my dad us right from wrong, never looked at black and and and white.It’s sorta like we all of us we played together you know. It wasn’t until I was in the 12th grade that I ever seen a race riot. So the songs I think helped people see what we saw, and how we lived, and how things could be.” - Freddie Stone