To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Feets Don't Fail Me Now" - a great Little Feat album. No doubt, the pop-culture loon was referring to that - not something racial.
Pahleeze.
8 posted on
12/31/2005 5:19:07 PM PST by
JellyJam
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To: JellyJam
Actually, it's titled "Feats Don't Fail Me Now."
10 posted on
12/31/2005 5:20:13 PM PST by
JellyJam
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To: JellyJam; scott says
Sorry, guys, but you're wrong.
The expression goes back way further than Little Feat. It was a classic racial stereotype of the frightened black man, a bug-eyed Stepin Fetchit type, who, scared of something, wanted to run away and hoped that his feet wouldn't fail him. And that is exactly the sense in which Berman, old enough to be well-acquainted with the phrase's history, used it.
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