{"id":1145,"date":"2003-11-22T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2017-06-20T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T04:52:27","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swen<\/a> quotes Phil Ochs’s “Love me, I’m a Liberal”, which reminds me of this from The National Lampoon’s White Album<\/i><\/del> Gold Turkey: National Lampoon Radio Hour\/Greatest Hits<\/i><\/ins>:<\/p>\n

\nI wish I was a Negro, with lots of Negro soul,
\nso I could stay true to my ethnic roots and still play rock and roll.
\nIf I was a funky Negro, eatin’ soul food barbecues,
\nI wouldn’t have to sing the middle class liberal Well-Intentioned Blues.<\/p>\n

I wish I was an Indian, a grown-up Sioux papoose,
\nso when I get drunk on a beer and a half I have a good excuse.
\nI’d be a noble savage, wouldn’t ever wear no shoes,
\nand I wouldn’t have to sing the middle class liberal Well-Intentioned Blues.<\/p>\n

I wish I was a wetback on a strike in a lettuce patch
\nor a slant-eyed peasant with Viet Cong stashed underneath my thatch.
\nI only ever cross a picket line to pay my union dues
\nto keep on singing the middle class liberal Well-Intentioned Blues.<\/p>\n

But I am not a Negro (come on!), not a red man nor a Mex. (Join me, kids!)
\nI’m a member of the oppressing color, language, age and sex.
\nI sympathize with the Arab cause; I feel for the put-upon Jew.
\nAnd I keep singing —
\nthe middle class liberal —
\nhumanitarian —
\nmeaningful dialogue —
\nwe are all responsible Well-Intentioned Blues.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(And again I wish I knew how to display this with hanging indents.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swen quotes Phil Ochs’s “Love me, I’m a Liberal”, which reminds me of this from The National Lampoon’s White Album Gold Turkey: National Lampoon Radio Hour\/Greatest Hits: I wish I was a Negro, with lots of Negro soul, so I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musicverse","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}