My problem overall, is that I keep on not being polite. I can't discuss academically something that ultimately, through demeaning a part of the human race for what they can't help, how they were born, gives permission to kill. Yes, murder, genocide, kill, and it is still going on in the most unacceptable of ways. They little words, the so-called non pc are the tiny bricks in the bridge across to the side that says all these BLACK folks (and many of us aren't BLACK, we are Indigenous or whatever) aren't quite up to us on the evolutionary scale, less than, and so on. There is BLACK and there is WHITE because, colonialism, slavery, and so on DID HAPPEN. As an Indigenous person (we are called BLACK!!!) in my country I could weep as I watch the effects of the little words, the little songs, the little acts, which are discussed oh so respectfully, academically, and politely, brand our babies before they are even born, steal hope from our young, condemn our young mothers and fathers to despair, and finally break the backs of the elders, and we who are a community of elders. Thankyou Azzizi for always being so polite, so respectful, intelligent and sensitive. I too love and respect the HUMANITY in us all, but I will not be polite as I watch my people dying and through the use of words, songs, etc. WHITE people give permission for it to happen. I am sick of it and I will not be respectful or polite. It is not only wrong, but unbearable in this world that we all share. "Pick A Bale Of Cotton" is a horrible song not because of how it sounds, but because of what it celebrates. How sick to look at it any other way. "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is the song of the former Hitler Youth that still reverberates among the young fascists of today. Do we get children to sing it because it is "anthemic" and "choral" and has a significant European history. I don't think so. Why?? Because it previewed unacceptable slaughter and has come to represent it and that is not so hard for people to get their heads around. Yet talk about anything to do with what lays the foundation stones for genocide and everyone gets very academic and defensive and blah blah blah. I have looked at my people cold and dead and have held African American people as they keened with grief, I have walked with Native Americans as they numbered their dead youth, I have been in Brussels as a Sudanese woman asked "who will know the names of my children as their bones mingle with the fish in the deep sea?" Ånd I'm not polite. The bottom line is that people are dying because of words like these and it is a shame that a school would even have this song on their list. Think peoples, it is not the white nations of this world who are starving, it is not the white nations of this world who have unacceptable infant mortality rates, it is not the white young generations who are in prison and in despair, in totality. We are all human and we are all suffering one way or another, but it is MY young people who are dying, not my white friends, it is MY dead sons who to this day I cannot say "they are gone" without the anger, and fury that racism engenders. The thing is that people DO know. Recently someone in my country said, "but I didn't know" and the answer was, "F*** it's been on the front page of newspapers all around the globe so don't give me that sh**" Should I apologise in advance for this rave? I'll save it.