Joanie Phoney.
Posted on 11/05/2004 6:15:17 AM PST by conelrad
Charlottesville, VA—America's "culture war" was on full display last night at the Joan Baez concert. Tickets to the concert were a present to my mother-in-law for her 69th birthday. My mother-in-law certainly fit the demographic of the audience, or as she described it, "All the old hippies are out tonight." Let's just say that by attending, my wife and I dropped the average age of the audience by several months.
Sixty-three year old Baez came out on stage and asked how the audience felt about the election? Of course the audience groaned and moaned—after all, this IS a Joan Baez concert. For her part, Joan said that she felt like she had been run over by a truck. One audience member yelled, "You give us hope." Now I like a good rendition of "Joe Hill" or "Diamonds and Rust," as well as the next person and I do recognize her talent as a singer. And Baez has a perfect right to dedicate a song, as she did, to that insufferable, lying self-promoter Michael Moore, whom she praised for doing his best to save the country. Later Baez announced that she was going to sing a song that she sang only in countries that were undergoing extreme political strife. In fact, she hadn't sung it in the United States in the last 20 years. The song? "We Shall Overcome."
However, the most remarkable and disturbing episode occurred halfway through the concert when Joan stopped singing and announced that she had "multiple personalities." One of her multiple personalities is that of a fifteen year old poor black girl named Alice from Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. Baez decided to share with us Alice's views on the election. Amazed and horrified I watched a rich, famous, extremely white folksinger perform what can only be described as bit of minstrelsy—only the painted on blackface was missing. Alice, the black teenager from Arkansas Baez was pretending to be, spoke in a dialect so broad and thick that it would put Uncle Remus and Amos and Andy to shame. Baez' monologue was filled with phrases like, "I'se g'win ta" to do this that or the other and dropping all final "g's." Baez as Alice made statements like, "de prezident, he be a racist," and "de prezident, he got a bug fer killin'." Finally, since Bush won the election with 58.7 million votes to Kerry's 55.1 million, Alice observed, "Seems lak haf' de country be plumb crazy." Since Baez was reading Alice's notes, it is evident that she thinks that Arkansas' public schools don't teach black children to write standard English.
Once Joan finished her minstrelsy riff, the audience, in which I did not see a single black person, went wild with applause and hoots and hollers. I have never felt so embarrassed for a bunch of "liberals" in my life. I wonder where Baez got her notions of how poor black country folk talk—she couldn't be stereotyping, could she?
The big, and obvious truth here, is that there are two standards of acceptable behavior in America. PC is whatever the left wants it to be.
"Turkey Scratch, Arkansas"
Another town named after Clintoon?
She showed the secret side to liberals. They really do look down on blacks and see them only as useful idiots
Where is Michael Moore when you need him?
Grape Koolaide, anyone?
Love that google!
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/aguinaldo.html
Since I was never a Hippie, and from that Generation..I feel such a justification...in the 2004 eletion. Never even smoked the weed. What a great day in America, Yes there is a cultural revolution, and we win.
Joanie Phoney.
It's classic Joan Baez; nothing new. Over 30 years ago she was stuck in a dream she had about Joe Hill, and entertained an entire audience at Woodstock with that one.
Did they have color editorial cartoons?
It kinda looks like a political sign for an election.
SHE'S AN OLD HIPPIE, AND SHE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
SHOULD SHE HANG ON TO THE OLD, SHOULD SHE GRAB ON TO THE NEW
SHE'S AN OLD HIPPIE, THINKIN LIFE IS JUST A BUST
SHE DON'T WANT TO HURT NOBODY,
SHE'S JUST TRYIN REAL HARD TO ADJUST...
I can't think of the country star who sings this. Of course he uses the pronoun "he"
Joan WHO?
Diagnosis: Acid Rain in the Frontal Lobe
Gag me! In my nicest moments, all I can dredge up is pity for these flaming left-over lefties. Maybe they're all caught up in some sort of death throes....?
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So the charicature is supposed to be Hispanic?
WOW thanks for the report, I had forgiven her when she apoligized way before Fonda about her Nam crap. Guess she has gone senile now. I still like her music :) Shut up and sing as Laura says.
I totally agree with your post!!
Joan, like so many others in the '60's, never rose to fame because she had talent; she rose to fame because she's a leftie and was willing to prostitute herself to the cause.
Aging hippies are, at best, just pitiful.
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Confirming my thoughts that the current crop of liberals in the Michael Moore (and Joan Baez) stripe are suffering a psychosis and consistantly project onto good and decent people (us) what they themselves think and do (the example presented here is clearly Baez is a flat out racist, all the while claiming that George W. Bush is the racist).
My guess is that Aguinaldo was a dark-skinned, Phillipino making him an easy target of "sambo"-like derision.
I was wondering about that!
I kept looking at the picture and the islands and palm trees just seemed so out of place.
Thanks for finding that for me.
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