You've Got To Be Carefully Taught

Darrell singing You've Got To Be Carefully Taught from South Pacific in East Hampton on 04/06

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Music

Tags:

• You've
• Got
• To
• Be
• Carefully
• Taught
• Darrell
• Cheney
• South
• Pacific

[cem404]

When South Pacific opened in 1949 racial segregation was the law in the US southern states. Lawmakers in the south tried to ban this song...but failed. It was a monumetal act of courage by the writers and producers of South Pacific to refuse to back down.

[dolphin330]

It happened when I was 9. I started walking a girl home . We played together every weekend . We were both the adventurous, romantic type, and a bond grew between us.

One Sunday I went to her house and her father said "Betty can't play with you any more." Next day at school, Betty said, "My father says its because we're Polish and you're Jewish." We were heartbroken, her father had been taught to hate. I am a lot older now, but still can't tell this story without breaking into tears

[ChrissyBZGirl]

@dolphin330 A similar story just happened to me and my best friend. She is hmong and I am white and her mother did not want us to see each other anymore, fortunately my story has ended on a happier note. Let's just say my friend decided to brake the rules for me. Of course we are older than nine and of driving age so we can see whoever we please. Perhaps now that you are older you can look up Betty and possibly rekindle your friendship?

[alexanderdiaz1]

I remember many years ago when Maury Povich, was worth watching, he did a show about racist people, he had parents of different races on stage, while their children were playing together peacefully in the green room. When one of the white ladies didn't like what an audience member had to say she stormed off the stage and went to the green room to get her child when she saw her child playing with the black child she went ballistic on her kid, that is a perfect example of Carefully Taught...

[cqsallie]

How can you not remember this incident? Whether or not it was a life-defining moment or not, it was a heart-wrenching moment that should never have happened at all.

Forty years ago, 50 years ago, 20, or 10. The idiocy of that moment in time stays with you all of these years because you lacked even a scintilla of power. You were a kid, you were a Jew - two strikes against you.

Had you been a Muslim, or a Protestant, would it have been any different?

If you had been Romeo and she Juliet?

[candr]

@GameofRassilon And unfortunately how some conduct their lives today.

[terrorfan24]

I think that the singer is not bad but I think it is too slow. As a result I think the song would have served him better.

[Umihime]

@GameofRassilon -The song was showing how idiotic and wrong racism was. R and H often used their songs to make commentary against racism, sexism and other means of segregating persons who appeared "different". They were hoping to open the eyes of people to the ignorance of prejudice and racism. This song is a beautiful example. Their point being Racism is not inborn or natural but taught...and it is wrong.

[GameofRassilon]

I'm not condoning racism but I must say that there is nothing wrong with this song. The musical itself is not being racist, its merely showing how life was like back then. Its like when in a show set in the 1700's and black people are being beaten up and put into slavery, its not condoning it - ITS JUST SHOWING HOW LIFE WAS LIKE BACK THEN

[NihilistImp]

@cem404 It was a better age back then.

[NihilistImp]

Race exists. It's a fact, and it's open season on whites. Don't try to sell me this happy horseshit when the media is flooded with anti-male, anti-white messages, and hordes of illegal immigrants shut down our cities like LA with impunity to advocate the right of Mexicans to break our laws.

Media amplifies the slightest transgression against blacks by whites, blacks are raping, and dismembering whites with impunity. We are the next South Africa, if we don't become the next Palestine first.

[patreich29]

... and it keeps going