[This Just In]

Something the NYT conveniently omitted.

[OwenKellogg]

When will they castigate Leonard Cohen for “Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton”?

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you’ve done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

[Utah Binger]

As a former member of the culture, here is an important thing to mention:

The Mormon church treated blacks as “Unworthy” to hold the higher priesthood until a convenient revelation happened in 1978. Poor Clive Bundy lives in certain isolation and in some ways the halo affect of such remains in his psyche and word usage.

I know this as we live among them now and we hear language and usage that is in some ways over fifty years old.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Happiness: Knowing my Tagline is absolutely the most accurate.
Sadness: Living with the fact that my Tagline is the most accurate.

[N. Theknow]

- and his use of "negro" and "colored" considered politically incorrect (although they were both once preferred terms chosen by blacks)

United Negro College Fund and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People not withstanding, it would be a lot easier if blacks, African-Americans, people of color could decide what they prefer to be called...aside from the affectionate terms they call each other which, if spoken by others, is inexcuseable and racist.

[celmak]

Haven't see this before.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3148575/posts

[ZULU]

Puts it all in different light.