>I agree with you that other issues are far more important, but I've also been the little kid in school feeling even more like an outsider than usual as everyone around me sang "God Bless America," which I'd never before that day.
Yes, I agree that introducing a song like "God Bless America" into a schoolroom is problematic. Probably a plot by the religious right.
In fact, the composer also wrote "White Christmas" - Do we see a pattern here?
Had he used his birth-name of Israel Isidore Baline little Waspy kids like me may have felt excluded - so he kindly copyrighted "God Bless America" as Irving Berlin < bg >
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
