Not sure whether this is a musical or political point; for me, the two things are utterly interlinked. You can't have nonpolitical music.

Pretty well ALL white men (and women) are racist. Born in the ex-slave-owning states of the US, almost 100% so. To stand against that takes huge effort, and some people make the effort.

But the point of my original post was not about 'normal' racism here or in the US, but the way that the American Indian has been consigned to oblivion by those in popular and protest culture. Hundreds of thousands of 'Indians' were in their graves because the 'white' people put them there. It was THEIR land, not MY land, not YOUR land.

The so-called 'communist' verses of the song should be sung, every time, and anyone who sings it should be constantly aware of whose land it was, within living memory!

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