And here I had always thought he was cracking corn! As in breaking up dried corn, maybe for grits. This may underscore why we need to preserve SOMEWHERE the original lyrics to unPC songs and stories. If we don't understand what has gonr before and why it was a problem we leave the path open to repeat the offense, or worse. Ditto I would never sing something offensive just cold, but with explanation so we understand the history, and maybe even educate some people who may still hold these views, we might even cause some progress toward the time when we truly do not comprehend predjudice and bigotry.

WHen I hear some of the things being bandied about as 'facts' about the civil unions business here in Vermont, I KNOW we need to educate ourselves! And yet one of our AFS students almost literally crawls out of his skin to even think about homosexuality, and the other, who says he's quite liberal, blithely assured me that most of the trouble in his country was caused by 'foreigns'. So we keep at it, by example. (I don't rub their noses in my rainbow-colored stickers, or my 'Love the bigot, hate the bigotry' bumper slogans...)

Great civilised discussion!