Justin says:
>I was at the Chicago Blues Festival this weekend--everyone should
>try to make it at least once, we have a great jazz festival too. The
>evening at the main stage opened the Star Spangled Banner (and I
>insisted my kids stand for it; I took off my hat; I explained to
>them that whatever you feel, you respect others' customs). Some
>biker types whooped it up during the line, "our flag was still
>here." One of them had a swastika tattoo. The people next to me were
>snarling about him, "Why hasn't someone killed him yet?" But the
>evening closed with Shanika Coleman (Johnny Coleman's daughter, and
>she is fucking awesome) singing about being a ghetto child in this
>so called land of freedom. The crowd loved that too. So it's
>complicated, not nearly as totalitarian as you suggest.
I was there but missed the Star Spangled Banner. Must have been in a Port-O-Potty or taking a nap on the lawn.
Didn't Marx pull for the North during the Civil War? Was the SSB played during that time?
Peter