[dfwgator]

Maya Angelou once remarked that northern whites and southern whites react differently to blacks but not in the way you’d expect.

Makes me think of the Randy Newman song, "Rednecks".

[Red Badger]

Never heard it.................

[Albion Wilde]

Makes me think of the Randy Newman song, "Rednecks".

Such a genius. I bought front-row tickets to see him years ago. He had just undergone the death of a friend, and when he started to sing, "I think it's going to rain today," he got to this part:

Lonely, lonely
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend

...and became overwhelmed, filled up with tears, got off the piano bench and left the stage, all of which was so painfully apparent to the first few rows. He soon came back and carried on. As a not half bad church singer, I have often regretted not just standing up and starting the audience singing the chorus to him en masse --

Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today