Re: [Marxism] Inaugural Preachers -- the Benediction

[Bill Quimby <wquimby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just trivia, probably, but I thought that it was cool that Lowery's
reference here is to a blues tune by Big Bill Broonzy called "Get Back"
and recorded sometime between 1949 and 1951. (It's on a CD titled
"Get Back" and also on a Smithsonian collection titled "Mean Old World".)

Sort of an inauguration first, I guess.

Some of the lyric

I was in a place one night,
They was all havin' fun,
They was all buyin' beer and wine,
But they would not sell me none.
They said: "If you was white,
You's alright,
If you was brown,
You could stick around,
But as you's black, hmm, hmm, brother,
Get back, get back, get back."

I went to an employment office,
I got a number and I got in line,
They called everybody's number,
But they never did call mine.
They said: "If you was white,
You's alright,
If you was brown,
You could stick around,
But as you's black, hmm, hmm, brother,
Get back, get back, get back."

- Bill

Joaquin Bustelo wrote: (quoting Lowery)
> Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the 
> joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black 
> will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- 
> when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, 
> man -- (laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right.

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