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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is NOT a racist song. Period. Doesn’t anyone remember the techno version from the 90s by some Swedish group? If anything it was making fun of white American stereotypes.  It is also a long running *baseball* tradition. https://www.mlb.com/cut4/fernando-rodney-marlins-dance-during-fort-bragg-game-c187828322

It’s entirely possible that the Black child or Walls classmates interpreted the song as racist. But they were wrong.

I hope the Walls admin handles this appropriately, but I doubt it. [/quote]
 
Boy, I can see the arguments that the students didn't know what they were doing.  And, we should lean towards giving children the benefit if the doubt.   But, it's something to see such a denial of the complicated history of the song.  Words such as "He was de nig dat sarved me so" are right there to see and it was a popular song in minstrels where blackface was central. Other and more modern variations don't change this history.

We should not try to destroy these young men.  But, we also should not dismiss the reaction as political correctness gone wrong.[/quote]

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