National Premier Soccer League
Really popular in the US...
I’m taking my Hobbie Cat ‘16 up to Torch Lake next weekend and sailing for three days straight weather permitting.
Oh yeah. And a racist.
“But the most damning buried Guthrie biographical fact? That he was, just like his old man, a racist.
Having blacked up as a teenager in Okemah to perform a half-baked minstrel show, Guthrie while living in Echo Park took time out from championing oppressed white Okies to doodle his innumerable cartoons of what he described as “jungle blacks,” a group he also referred to as “niggers,” “darkies,” “chocolate drops” and, yes, “monkeys.”*
After encountering a group of African-Americans on Santa Monica Beach one day in 1937, Guthrie immortalized the meeting in a lengthy poem that included stanzas like, “What is that Ethiopian smell / upon the Zephyrs, what a fright!” and “We could dimly hear their chants / and we thought the blacks by chance / were doing a cannibal dance.”*
Broadcasting on Pasadena’s KFVD, Guthrie often indulged in on-air employ of ebonics and was stunned when a black listener characterized the singer as “unintelligent” after hearing Guthrie perform songs with titles like “Run, Nigger, Run” and “Nigger Blues.” Fortunately for Guthrie, recordings of these tunes do not survive.”
https://www.laweekly.com/little-known-fact-woody-guthrie-was-a-big-ol-racist/
Woody Gutherie has a racist past...
https://www.laweekly.com/little-known-fact-woody-guthrie-was-a-big-ol-racist/
JONNY WHITESIDEJULY 13, 2012
...But the most damning buried Guthrie biographical fact? That he was, just like his old man, a racist.
Having blacked up as a teenager in Okemah to perform a half-baked minstrel show, Guthrie while living in Echo Park took time out from championing oppressed white Okies to doodle his innumerable cartoons of what he described as [omitted, see article]...
Broadcasting on Pasadena’s KFVD, Guthrie often indulged in on-air employ of ebonics and was stunned when a black listener characterized the singer as “unintelligent” after hearing Guthrie perform songs with titles like... [again see the article for offending titles]... Fortunately for Guthrie, recordings of these tunes do not survive.
(Guthrie apologists are quick to point out that “———” was then in common usage. But its intended meaning was pejorative then — and, yes, racist — just as it is now.)
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie#Early_life:_1912%E2%80%9331
Charles Guthrie was reportedly involved in the 1911 lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson.[12] (Woody Guthrie wrote three songs about the event in the 1960s. He said that his father, Charles, became a member of the Ku Klux Klan during its revived beginning in 1915.[12][13])
In Oklahoma.
What they are saying is they have no loyalty to the United States, but still see the United States’ land as theirs for the taking.
Ribbon of highway, diamond deserts, blah, blah.
“We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice.”
Oh, really? Say something like “all lives matter” and see what happens, you dumba$$.
He wasn’t a ‘Communist sympathizer’ he was an outright COMMUNIST!............
Being a good 'ol godless socialist (and a white supremacist to boot), Woody wrote this as an angry rejoinder. Guthrie, Burl Ives, Will Geer, and a few others were Communist sympathizers in the 1930's, back when the Depression was causing many to positively look at Communism (remember all those glowing reports of Stalin's Russia by Walter Duranty?).
Down in OK I would imagine that, “Jose can you see?” would be considered right neighborly.
They did it in order to get some free press, because news in Tulsa is brought to you by a bunch of Junior High School hack writers who can't even string two legible sentences together.
However, it does underscore that Tulsa and Oklahoma City are going blue because of the liberals a fags flooding in from kommiefornia and orygone and, etc. It's sickening.
I always said soccer is a communist sport.
Not a single county in Oklahoma went for Hillary in the last election. Liberals don’t seem to be very popular in the state. So this left-wing virtue signalling probably won’t sit will with the handful of fans who would watch semi-pro soccer.
BLM is for “communal ownership” (communism), including the seizure of farmland. So the refrain in an unfortunate way does seem apt.
Good song. Bad source. But can’t replace the Anthem.