THPPPT!
Posted on 05/17/2005 10:26:50 AM PDT by Destro
THPPPT!
When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry.
He's not singing the praises of it - he's saying he screwed up and now is paying the piper.
>>What happened was the rise of socialist ideology in the 1960s<<<
i agree.... and even a little before that in the North East.
Well, kinda, but they make it look a lot better now! :-)
I thought it was this kind of redneck problem.
A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has 5 children. Can each of the children place a mobile home on the man's land?
Or maybe this one:
At a reduction in gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation, how long will it take a town that has been bypassed by the interstate to breed a country-western singer?
Is that anything like a hoopty ride?
Read this last week. Good article!
True (it is all the Yankees' fault!), but I think the point Thomas Sowell is trying to make is that the gangsta culture and Ebonics are not "black things," and the black community needs to stop acting like they are. However, African society on the continent of Africa was and is quite tribal, territorial, and fully capable of engaging in wars and criminal behavior.
Memo to Thomas Sowell: Black people suffer from the fallen human condition just as much as any other race, sorry to say. We all have the obligation and challenge to rise above our inherent sin nature.
Not quite, Sowell is using the term "redneck" not as a person with independent conservative beliefs, but as a person who shuns education, shuns work most of the time, and when he talks he argues forcefully with a "preacher like" furvor to hide his basic non-understanding of much of what he is saying. (You know, the cars on blocks in a messy yard kind of redneck.)
In short, this is the culture of the white and black south and unless you leave this culture behind, you will be held back and be poor. (Note that race is not a factor, just the culture, subscribe to the culture, stay poor.)
BTW, Sowell does not say this is the only aspect of the Southern culture, only that this history explains what is happening today better than the white man holding the black man down or past slavery holding the black man down. Sowell is looking for things that are happening in people's lives today to expalin why they are poor today. A good approach in my opinion. And it avoids the hint of racism that creeps in when you try to talk about a group.
Thomas Sowell is a Black Conservative and this article is a commentary on that book. So try again.
As an American of Scottish extract, I'm deeply offended at the notion that my peat-bog farming, heavy single malt scotch drinking ancestors are to blame for such a low life culture.
Yep. If you find yourself in agreement with Bill Raspberry then you better check your information/principles. His error rate is so high that if he wrote that the sky was blue I would have to go outside and check. Sowell is highly reliable so I am going to defer judgement until I read the book. As others here have noted the transition to urban living (from the rural south) is when the problems appeared. I personally look to the welfare state as culprit, not to Scots-Irish values at first glance.
Of course, unless, one goes into the bar as a local "regular" and has already been accepted.
You are liable to get the 's' kicked out of you for no reason in backwoods, teeth-challened redneck America--the more non-redneck you are the higher the chance.
It isn't just redneck America.
Better watch your back in a Tijuana, or Tegucigalpa or Panamanian/Colombian bar, too.
However, visit most places in California--especially along the coast, or a beer/sausauge bar in Wisconsin, some nice places in the Northeast, etc. a Japanese karaoke bar in NYC or Phoenix, a pub in Singapore or Tokyo, Chinese/Thai bar in San Francisco, etc. (& the "hey, dude? WHATCHEW Loookin' at??!!", itching-for-a-fight-with-the-stranger-ratio is much lower).
I'm not the biggest fan of socially-loser, pissed off at the world and anyone different then them "rednecks" by and large I'll say. Maybe I can be converted.
But in that J Cash song I believe the charecter recognizes the fact that HE screwed up.......Do many rap songs dealing with a similar theme do the same?
Completely off topic- Ice-T has vending machines in his house because he was sick of people coming over and mooching all his food and pop.
ohhhh, man, those are evil ;)
Murder ballads make up a considerable portion of the "traditional" American music catalog.
Lilly of the West
Willow Garden
Banks of the Ohio
jeez, let me get my bluegrass songbooks out...too numerous to mention
The song you are thinking of, Folsom Prison Blues, while not a traditional, also falls into that category.
drinking, rambling, gambling, whoring, killing....
hard to argue with Ice T on this point.
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