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Neil Young was absolutely right in his observations in the songs Southern Man and Alabama. Too many people in the South, including govt officials and law enforcement, were negligent in defending the civil rights of blacks.

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Posted by Harry Rex Vonner

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Posted on 2/10/18 at 8:41 am to Harry Rex Vonner

by the way, that Tony Brown interception was a fluke

it just fell into this chest

it was a gift

he didn't do anything special

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Posted by Jazzbo Depew

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Posted on 2/10/18 at 8:45 am to Harry Rex Vonner

He looks a little like Jed Clampett.

Those Southern Man lyrics are so harsh and angry. I guess the 60's were a turbulent time ?

Welll Doggies !

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Posted by Literalist

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Member since Oct 2014

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Posted on 2/10/18 at 10:31 am to Jazzbo Depew

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now, that's just what I am,
For this "fair land of freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it --
I only wish we'd won;
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic, too;
I hates the Freedmen's Bureau,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees,
I hates 'em wuss and wuss.

I hates the Yankee nation,
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union,
'Tis dripping with our blood;
And I hates the striped banner --
I fit it all I could.

I followed old Mars' Robert
For four year, near about,
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Pint Lookout.
I cotch the roomatism
A-campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees --
And I'd like to kill some mo'.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three millions
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no mo'.
But I ain't a-goin' to love 'em,
Now this is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am,
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I don't care a damn.

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Posted by viceman

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Member since Aug 2016

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Posted on 2/10/18 at 10:50 am to Huddie Leadbetter

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In any event, Neil Young was absolutely right in his observations in the songs Southern Man and Alabama. Too many people in the South, including govt officials and law enforcement,

Be that as it maybe. Skynard was referring to the song "Southern Man" which is why they said, "a Southern man don't need you around anyhow",(they were poking fun at a friend and never expected the song "Sweet Home Alabama" to be a national hit.) I stand by what I said Neal Young was less concerned about the politics of the South(nor Skynard for that matter), than he was about making money on the politics of the time. Did he donate the proceeds of that album to civil rights causes. Hell no, he did not. Why does nobody ever mention the Northeast? I guess it is because it did not get as much as coverage, but the Northeast was and is to this day even more segregated than South.(meaning income disparages and living in separate part of towns) Riots and marches and violence in Boston in particular, segregated restaurants in that time where Bill Russell was not allowed to eat despite being a NBA legend. This doesn't justify the action of George Wallace and Bull Connor, but I just want to point that the civil rights movement was nation wide and not limited to Alabama and Mississippi.

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