On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Someone writes offlist:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From:
>> Date: February 6, 2008 12:43:51 PM EST
>> To: dhenwood at panix.com
>> Subject: "yes we can" lyrics
>>
>> "It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and
>> pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. "
>>
>> So much for that whole Native American slaughter thing.
Parsing a campaign song to equate "immigrants" and "pioneers" with genocide makes even less sense than to read "Every Man a King and Every Gal a Queen" as justifying royal crimes throughout history! Leftists have been known to refer favorably to the American Revolution even though its crucial motivation was Bad King George's refusal to permit the colonists' expansion beyond the Alleghanies.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos