Posted on 11/14/2005 4:02:40 AM PST by prisoner6
(Oak Park, MI) -- A song that many feel glorifies slavery in the United States is causing quite a stir in one Michigan community. North Oakland County NAACP President Dr. Eugene Rogers told the "Detroit News" that he can't believe Anderson Middle School students in Oak Park are going to perform the song "Pick A Bale Of Cotton." The student choir is scheduled to perform the song on Wednesday. The parents of an African-American child in the choir have pulled their daughter out of the show in protest.
It's also in The Detroit News, but I refuse to post their URL because they won't let us post even an EXCERPT!
Scumbags!
I did post a URL to Google news if you feel want to read the DN version.
In any case here's another PC attack on American Tradition/American Music Heritage. It's getting so I won't be able to publicly do songs like "CHurch in the Wildwood", "The Sunny Side of Life" or ANYTHING from Porgy and Bess!
PC police along with the farking copyright anal retentives can shove it.
WOW, am I in a crabby mood this morning!
FWIW - assuming this isn't copyright infringement < /sarcasm > - here is one version of the lyrics to the song in question.
Ya wanna jump down turn around (Pick a bale of cotton)
Do ya wanna jump down turn around (Pick a bale a day)
Do ya wanna jump down turn around (Pick a bale of cotton)
Do ya wanna jump down turn around (Pick a bale a day)
Whoa whoa Lordie (Pick a bale of cotton)
Whoa whoa Lordie (Pick a bale a day)
Even Andy Griffith did this song on his show and several albums.
prisoner6
Whites been picking cotton before and after blacks. What a bunch of ignernts.
Whoa whoa Lordie - Liberals running out of things to complain about.
They can rap about killing cops and raping Ho's the NAACP doesnt mind that, but man --yo Caint be a pickin no cotton.
"Swing down Sweet Chariot" will go next, and after that its "Old Man River".
Yeah, but you're right on...
You bet they have SFreebird. I'll bet you alot of parents and grandparents of current FReepers picked cotton. They too were a slave to it, (though not like "slavery").......they had this little habit of wanting to EAT! I wish people would just get over it.
Most of the cotton has been picked around here. Of course they use mechanical pickers.
Its amazing the amount of cotton missed by the machines that is simply mowed down for next years crop. Somebody that needs money could put in a few hours and make a little. Same thing with peanuts, yams and other machine picked crops.
Oh, I forgot, thats work.
Would someone show me in The Constitution the Right to NOT be Offended!?
I'm offended by people who are offended.
Then again I'm an offensive kinda guy....
prisoner6
Our church gleans sweet potato fields after they are mechanically harvested. We donate the potatoes to a charity for distribution to the poor. It's back breaking work, so I am sure the farmers are really glad to have those machines to do it, even if they do miss lots of potatoes.
ping
Ya know, if that mother was really concerned she'd not be sweeping slavery under the rug but use it as a learning experience of how the daughter's ancestors knew how to put in a day's work and lived to sing about it. Sorry, but slaves weren't all beaten and treated badly. The farmers couldn't afford to have them injured or sickly. If the slaves weren't able to work, there was no harvest and the owners would be broke. My great-grandmother was glad when the slaves were freed because they were too much trouble to care for.
I believe in days of old some of the pickers left a part of the crop on the ground as Charity. The people who came and got it were called gleaners.
But you are right , mechanical means leave a lot of crop behind.
We had a drought here this year and much of the Soy Beans and Corn was small. The screen on the mechanical pickers allowed so much product through the machines that now it looks like beans and corn were sewn, as the product that fell through is starting to grow.
The Negro culture in this country is so rich in music, poetry, dance, literature, education and more. Slavery wasn’t invented by America, Slavery was and still IS a human condition - Dr. Eugene Rogers should spend his time on correcting that if at all possible rather than try to re-write history. Are we to be stripped of Epaminondas or the classic tales from “Uncle Remus”?...the American Aesop’s Fables with B’rer Rabbit and B’rer Fox so beautifully told in the soft and lovely Negro patois? All the songs and folk lore from the South are just a part of the richness that resonates across this country mingled with Spanish, French, English, just dozens and dozens of other cultures. Will the noble Dr. Eugene Rogers and the National Association of Colored People deny not only the colored but the red, yellow and white people this history or eventually all native stories that have dark skinned people in them.
What Folly!!!
How many more generations of blacks will be lost while their leadership focuses on race-baiting?
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