Apples and oranges ... the words she replaced were still about her country ... not her religious affiliation ...
Creative thought, PM, however ... just like Rene.
OK..I'll bite! (apples and oranges)
Lets say I change the words which were still about my pledge to the good ole USA! In other words, I recited my own pledge of allegiance at a public event. Would you be upset?
No, that would be like telling a mother or child who has suffered domestic or sexual abuse at the hands of a black man, to not suspect all black men of having the same lack of character. And to add as a footnote, that white men can be abusive as well. It is the character of the person, not the color of the skin that is important.
It is bothersome when black people, who have risen up against inequality and racism, then express their own racism by denigrating the character of white people as a whole, instead of recognizing that color doesn't matter.
I seem to remember hearing someone talk about having a "Dream" where this actually was the case.
Is talk radio in a huffy over this? Probably not.[/B]
What on earth do you have against talk radio? It's a LOT more intelligent than the TV Snooze presented by CNN, ABC News, CBS or even Fox News!!!!
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To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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I disagree. The occasion was the mayor's annual State of the City address. Such formal functions always open with the National Anthem. If the mayor's lackeys had wanted to embellish the program (and I'm certain they had their own ideas) the certainly could have done so without offending the sensibilities of everyone else in the city.
And to address the question about support for the singer that was raised by another poster - the local news has been strangely silent on this issue. It seems that no one has stepped up to support this woman's actions. And she herself has apologized.
"Lift E'vry Voice" is a swell song. But what this artist did with it was indefensible. She herself seems to have realized that.
Thanks... I had wondered how it would play out. So she did apologize.
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That's the greater question at hand ... whether it should be viewed as such ... and whether this is battery acid ... or a pin prick.
Some things are just people using their freedoms ... creatively or politcally ... but swimming in them nonetheless ...
To equate a black woman who sang a patriotic song with words of another equally patriotic song ... is not battery acid....
More can be said about recent vandalism in Orlando in which 60 cars were trashed w/ racial slurs against Obama ...
Is talk radio in a huffy over this? Probably not.
Dan, as I said earlier, Im not mad at her. But once again, your tact here is telling a great deal of people what they should be thinking.
This is the bigger issue.
sorry bro. while I look at this as something other than a personal affront, I cannot agree with you either. regardless of what you think people should think and regardless of how you think people should react, people will respond from their own experience and nither you nor this lady have a right to suggest that "white" people should be fine with this.
the facts are what matters. preception is reality. in this case, regardless of what you think it should be, this act was equal to pouring battery acid in an open (if healing) wound.
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I seem to remember hearing someone talk about having a "Dream" where this actually was the case.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
Nice number of white folks in that crowd. I'm sure they were just there for political reasons, though, or to get their faces on the tube. Surely not because they actually cared about race issues.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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