Point well taken, kat... Yes, the original inhabitants certainly deserve an apology... and more... Those who live on reservations are some of the poorest folks in our general population...

Sorry also 'bout my hillbilly dialect... It ain't meant to be mimickin' anyone... It's really the way I talk in real life... I'm jus' tryin' to write the way that I talk... Those who have met me or heard me perform would say, "Hey, that's the way the boy is..." If it were mimiscking tho, I agree with you that it would indeed be racist in that I was putting down white hillbillies... Heck, white hillbillies is my neighbors and my friends... Yeah, most of them know that I ain't 'xactly into that bluegrass an' old timey music but don't seem to bother them none that I play alot of blues... Actually, jus' about every party I play up here in the mountains theres folks who come up and say stuff like "I ain't never heared of that kinda music but I like it..."

As fir what I have said here about a discussion of race, no, I don't necessarily thuink I'm am preaching to the chior... Maybe with you, kat, but from reading what others have said, if they are in the choir then count me out... We ain't singing in the same key...

B~