[78-L] Race observations^

[Julian Vein]

Bud Black wrote:
> Please name just one Stephen C. Foster song that denigrates the black man. 
> Old Black Joe?  Oh, Susanna?  Camptown Races?  In none of his songs does he
> ever use the "N" word.  "Darkie," yes, but this word was as acceptable in
> the mid-nineteenth century as "African-American" is today.  By the by, a
> Caucasian musician pal of mine was born and raised in southern Johannesburg,
> and now is an American citizen.  Is he, therefore, African-American?
> 
> Bud 
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Aboeriginal?

      Julian Vein