"You've got to be carefully taught"

[niyad]

thinking today about those terrible ads in TN, and, in a thread below, about the racist BS at a peewee game, and remembered this from "south pacific"

Song: Youve Got To Be Carefully Taught Lyrics

Cable:

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

[GainesT1958]

1. A lesser-known, but still very powerful, song from...

"The King and I"!

I'm just proud to be a member of the party that DOESN'T hate African-Americans, immigrants, and the disabled--and doesn't pray on 16-year-old House pages.

Hmmm...looks like WE'RE the ones who are really on the right side of that "family values" argument!:eyes:

B-)