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Meteor Man

(385 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 04:55 PM May 2016

We Shall Overcome

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.

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We Shall Overcome (Original Post) Meteor Man May 2016 OP

I think it is ok. deathrind May 2016 #1

it's a non issue. nt msongs May 2016 #2

I guess it depends on what you are overcoming? Beaverhausen May 2016 #3

why would anyone care who sings any song? wendylaroux May 2016 #4

I'm missing the context. Warren DeMontague May 2016 #5

This Pie Fight Meteor Man May 2016 #6

I've learned from long experience that commenting on what people choose to get outraged over, here Warren DeMontague May 2016 #8

here's the spark MisterP May 2016 #7

Not mentioned - the guy leading the song was PoC Prism May 2016 #9

Thank-you! Meteor Man May 2016 #10

deathrind

(1,786 posts)

1. I think it is ok.

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 04:58 PM

May 2016

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

msongs

(74,203 posts)

2. it's a non issue. nt

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 04:58 PM

May 2016

Beaverhausen

(24,706 posts)

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

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 04:59 PM

May 2016

wendylaroux

(2,925 posts)

4. why would anyone care who sings any song?

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:00 PM

May 2016

except for Shatner singing Rocket Man,that hurt.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

5. I'm missing the context.

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:00 PM

May 2016

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

Meteor Man

(385 posts)

6. This Pie Fight

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #5)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:05 PM

May 2016

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

(80,708 posts)

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

Reply to Meteor Man (Reply #6)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:13 PM

May 2016

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

(23,730 posts)

7. here's the spark

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:10 PM

May 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118752829

Prism

(5,815 posts)

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

Reply to Meteor Man (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:16 PM

May 2016

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

(385 posts)

10. Thank-you!

Reply to Prism (Reply #9)

Tue May 31, 2016, 05:23 PM

May 2016

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.

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