on Easter Sunday, 1939, famed contralto, Marion Anderson...
performed an open air concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial...
because the DAR would not allow a "person of color" to perform at their service...
she ended her performance with a stirring... & quite ironic rendition...
of "My Country, T'is of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty..."
this performance brought her much attention...
and advanced the cause of civil rights in this country...
which still, 70 years later is divided by so much that is not important...
that we fail to see that which is important...
that like it or not, we're all in this together...
and we need each other to get through it...
to hear this concert performance, click here...
and if you find the newsreel background music,"Camptown Races"...
with it's decidedly racist overtones, offensive, you are not alone...
I do as well, but it is a "period piece"...
today, we would be much more PC...
hiding the same feelings under a veneer of smiles...
perhaps someday, we can actually speak the truth...
without hiding behind either "white hoods" or "PC" jargon...
I have THAT dream...[with no disrespect intended...]
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