No Excuses
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Over the weekend, I posted a link in a PM to another version of the following song from what has become a beloved Musical to me.. I deleted it because I am still ashamed of what I once believed. Things that are unfair and unkind. But I do a disservice to my friends, who have seen almost every bit of me and would have understood. And the message of the song is clear. What perhaps is implied is that what we have learned can be untaught through the patience and understanding of others.
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade—
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13PQgcejqI
Harry Connick, Jr. as Lt. Cable
from the TV Movie version of the Stage Play, South Pacific
Words and Music by
Oscar Hammerstein II and
Richard Rodgers