Anyhow, Jim: I don't propose to argue any further with you, because it is pointless, taking on board the fact of where we both start in our views of one another. You see me as a racist bigot; which in fact I am not. I perceive you as a foolishly doctrinaire mind-made-up-don't-confuse-with-facts ideologue; which you are probably not either.

So I see no point pursuing this nerve-racking but fruitless feud any further. Let's just leave it there, with mutual recollections of a valued acquaintance. And maybe some respect for one-another's contributions in the folk·music field, if nothing else. Which, on this forum, if you look back, is, as they say, where we came in [an image I always like as redolent of the old continuous performances they used to run in cinemas in my long-ago youth].

~M~