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Title: Way down upon the Suwannee River
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0keeGIgcY
Published: Mar 22, 2010
Author: TomMold1138
Post Date: 2016-09-01 08:08:20 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 592
Comments: 13

Uploaded on Mar 22, 2010

My drive to Florida landed me in the Suwannee River area.

"Old Folks at Home"

written by Stephen Foster in 1851

Performed by Pete Seeger as part of his historical "American Favorite Ballads" recordings for the Smithsonian Folkways label in the 1960's

This song has been edited to remove one line of verse.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

I guess that the darkies are no longer gay...

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-09-01   8:15:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lod (#1)

the darkies are no longer gay...

Guess not. Nowadays they are more into looting, pillaging and burning. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-09-01   8:18:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Lod (#1)

Political correctness gone mad.

Cynicom  posted on  2016-09-01   8:19:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Lod (#1)

The song, "My Old Kentucky Home," words and music by Stephen Collins Foster, was adopted by the Kentucky Legislature as the Kentucky state song on March 19, 1928.

In March, 1986, a group of Japanese students visiting the Kentucky General Assembly changed the song forever. To pay their respects, the group sang "My Old Kentucky Home." Upon hearing the phrase, " 'Tis summer, the darkies are gay," Representative Carl Hines (Democrat-Louisville), the only black member of the House, was quoted as saying that the lyrics of the rendition "convey connotations of racial descrimination that are not acceptable." Within the week, he sponsored a bill which the House passed, House resolution 159, which officiated the modern lyrics with the line, 'Tis summer, the people are gay." Hines substantiated the bill, citing that the original lyrics were offensive, owing no respect toward African-Americans.

Source: www.netstate.com/states/symb/song/ky_my_old_kentucky_home.htm

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-09-01   11:22:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Fred Mertz, Lod (#4)

Any day now, I expect to see the beginning of a mass exodus of Africans, back to Africa.

I understand their yearning to be free and among their own race.

It would be wrong for our government to prevent this movement.

Cynicom  posted on  2016-09-01   11:52:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#5)

I kind of like the term darkies. I don't think I've heard it spoken in my life, except in song.

I think the 1950s terminology was coloreds, right Olde Man?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-09-01   12:03:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Fred Mertz (#6)

Whiteys, darkies; what's the big deal?

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-09-01   12:24:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Fred Mertz (#6)

I think the 1950s terminology was coloreds, right Olde Man?

I go back much farther, we used the term "darkies".

In the 1930s I do not recall any other term. At that time darkies was NOT a derogatory term.

Cynicom  posted on  2016-09-01   12:24:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Lod (#7)

Whiteys, darkies; what's the big deal?

There was none, until the race baiters came along and made it a profitable business.

Politicians found it useful.

Cynicom  posted on  2016-09-01   12:27:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Cynicom, 4 (#9)

enjoy the original version where the darkies were gay

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-09-01   12:33:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Cynicom (#9)

In my little town the black folks lived on Brown Street. I'll guess they were about 3 percenters.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-09-01   12:36:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Lod (#10)

Thanks...

Foster was born down the road a bit from me. There are still Fosters around the area.

Cynicom  posted on  2016-09-01   12:46:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Cynicom (#12)

They have the Stephen Foster home in Bardstown, KY. In the middle of Bourbon distilling.

That reminds me...I have to get a bottle of Armored Diesel for my friend in TN. George S. Patton is on the face of the bottle. I think it's whiskey rather than bourbon.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-09-01   12:50:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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