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poltr1 ([personal profile] poltr1) wrote2010-02-05 11:20 pm
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In honor of Black History Month......

What I like about this song is that it details the accomplishments of people of color. Listen to the childrens' classroom drill at the end.



Lyrics here.

[identity profile] robin-june.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Never heard this song before (all I got to hear of Stevie in 1976 was what was played on AM radio). So, as I was listening to the video while reading the lyrics, I was struck by the fact that this song about human skin color categorization was written by a blind man, who was uniquely qualified to see those categorizations as an arbitrary, limiting, & unnecessary system of pigeonholing.