I don’t really understand why this black kid was offended?
I don’t know if it’s genetic or what, but lately it seems that black skin is exceptionally thin.
Here is the one of the most popular versions. This student has been brainwashed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTnw_MmVptQ
One of my sweetest memories of childhood was my Dad coming home from a long day at the Pentagon in time to sing my brother and me to sleep. He’d walk up and down the hall outside of our bedrooms and sing all the songs of the old South - a lot of them spirituals. He always said he couldn’t sing, but he had a nice, clear untrained voice. Sheesh! Give it a break!
I was just thinking about using some of these songs at our Civil War reenactment in a couple of weeks, for the schools day. Maybe not....