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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Daniels is dead. [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)40. He didn't "turn into" one. That's who he always was
Charlie was from a different generation, one who could remember a time before rock & roll, and one who grew up in the thick of institutional racism. Daniels never denied this, recounting to journalist Mark Kemp in 2004 that he never went to school with a black person one day in my life. My mind was conditioned in such a way that I felt they were an inferior race. That was just the way things were. And the thing about it is, when youre raised that way, when youre indoctrinated that way, its not even a conscious thing to you. It was a cultural thing. https://medium.com/@sterlewine/the-souths-gonna-do-it-again-charlie-daniels-the-confederacy-and-the-rise-of-the-new-south-in-ebbce1059d51
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His early music was good, and he was a good musician (played on Dylan albums, etc.). n/t
blitzen
Jul 2020
#8
Later in life Charlie Daniels was the result of right wing media consumption.
tenderfoot
Jul 2020
#9
Ray Wylie Hubbard to the Devil: "I thought your solo was the better of the two"...
blitzen
Jul 2020
#13
It is good that we have those so much wiser here to show us how we should think, is it not?
Tipperary
Jul 2020
#55
Him: "in the future Darwinism will be looked upon as we now look upon the flat earth theory"
USALiberal
Jul 2020
#54