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Thread #43386 Message #633663
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
23-Jan-02 - 07:01 AM
Thread Name: Baptist Sunday School words offensive?
Subject: RE: Baptist Sunday Sunday words offensive???
Hi-cut boots with a pocket in the side for a jacknife. Ahhhhh!! As far as Amos and Andy are concerned, Joe and Frank in my gospel quartet really liked Amos and Andy and weren't offended by it, and they're black. Like everything else, it's impossible to generalize. Frank loved Uncle Dave Macon, and both Frank and Joe loved the Grand Ole Opry and like bluegrass. My feeling is, if you only offend 10% of the audience, why do it? You never know what people have suffered. When Frank and Joe, who are now in their seventies, were growing up down south, they had family members who were ex-slaves who were still living. There were still iron posts and shackles in the center of the town where they chained the slaves before auction. The church that I go to was started by 25 ex-slaves in the back room of a tavern (which wasn't in use Sunday mornings.) Slavery isn't that long ago. Neither are lynchings and the Ku Kux Klan. The line "Come to the Sunday School and have a lot of fun" is probably the way they sang it at a Lutheran church where I heard it a few years ago. A good choice. My group sings a similar song, Who Built The Ark? which I like a lot better, though. Check the thread Oh, Mona for the lyrics...
Jerry