[Peace-discuss] *Dixie* sounds racist to me (wikipedia)

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

On Oct 12, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Robert Dunn wrote:
>  By the way, Dixie is not a racist song.

Dixie", also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land", and by 
other titles, is a popular American song. It is one of the most 
distinctively American musical products of the 19th century,[1] and 
probably the best-known song to have come out of blackface 
minstrelsy.[2] Although not a folk song at its creation, "Dixie" has 
since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented 
the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the 
Southern United States.

The song originated in the blackface minstrel show of the 1850s and 
quickly grew famous across the United States. Its lyrics, written in a 
racist, exaggerated version of African American English Vernacular, 
tell the story of a freed black slave pining for the plantation of his 
birth. During the American Civil War, "Dixie" was adopted as a de facto 
anthem of the Confederacy.

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