The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44532   Message #655051
Posted By: Janice in NJ
21-Feb-02 - 10:48 PM
Thread Name: Is Joan Baez a fraud?
Subject: RE: Is Joan Baez a fraud?
Basic courtesy? Am I the one who used the word fraud? Or implied that Joan Baez was callous? Or that David Harris was a jerk? I'd rather let Joan's record speak for itself. It was she who walked beside young black children as they braved mobs to desegregate public schools in Mississippi. It is she who went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War and then, unlike Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, took the Communist leaders to task on their dismal human rights record. It is she who brought a message of nonviolence to such places as Palestinian refugee camps. Need I go on?