Salem readies for the totality.
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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Timely Reposting
I posted a long version of this in June. I am compelled to repost an abridged version today.
This has been in front of the courthouse of the little Oklahoma town where I was born for as long as I can remember. Should it come down? Sweet little soldier-boy. Terrible symbol. Terrible war. Aren’t they all? Oklahoma wasn’t even a state until 1907. And it really isn’t in the south.
You’ve got to be carefully taught
Yesterday, here in Salem, Oregon, I actually saw a confederate flag flying from a pickup truck. I wanted to take a picture, but the heavily tattooed arm propped on the window scared me. Where does all this hate come from? Remember this song from “South Pacific”?
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.