We Shall Overcome

[Meteor Man]

Ok help me out here. Does DU have a problem with Pete Seeger singing The Song?

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How about Joan Baez?

Is it ok for Bruce Springsteen to sing We Shall Overcome?

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bruce-springsteen-performs-surprise-cover-of-we-shall-overcome-at-norway-memorial-concert/



I don't expect one, but a rational explanation would be nice.

[deathrind]

1. I think it is ok.

But that is my opinion...other opinions vary obviously.

[msongs]

2. it's a non issue. nt

[Beaverhausen]

3. I guess it depends on what you are overcoming?

[wendylaroux]

4. why would anyone care who sings any song?

except for Shatner singing Rocket Man,that hurt.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I'm missing the context.

But I will say that Springsteen's album of Pete Seeger covers is really good.

[Meteor Man]

6. This Pie Fight

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118752829

Which completely baffled me. I am convinced that We Shall Overcome is a gift to the whole world. Nobody owns this song.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. I've learned from long experience that commenting on what people choose to get outraged over, here

invariably turns into another outrage, and before you know it you are stuck in an outrage feedback loop.

So I'm just going to line my helmet with cottage cheese and go back to bed.

[MisterP]

7. here's the spark

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118752829

[Prism]

9. Not mentioned - the guy leading the song was PoC

All the speakers save Robert Reich were also PoC.

It was Oakland after all. And, of course, people who weren't there are claiming that it was all white people.

I was there. It was a very mixed crowd.

But then, some of these are the same people who would leap over corpses to berate LGBTers for quoting MLK.

So take the childish nonsense for what it is - people just looking for a fight and seeking to feel slighted in some way. LGTBers had to deal with this shit for years. "You can't have our Civil Rights movement!"

Which, yeah, way to miss the entire point of that whole thing.

[Meteor Man]

10. Thank-you!

I'm kicking it on Skid Row which is neutral territory for all races. Got friends of all races proresting against criminalizing homelessness in Frisco.

A lot of us on The Row are feeling The Bern.