[Dixielandjazz] politically correct?

[Charlie Hooks]

On Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at 09:23 PM, Cebuisle2 at aol.com wrote:

>  I scratched the song from the set.
>
> How do you active musicians handle this?

I understand your having done this, but I think you were quite 
wrong.  How do you handle idiocy?  Ignore it.  Pay no attention to 
that little man behind the curtain--nor to those idiots who may 
possibly be in the audience.

My band was always a "mixed" band: 4 white guys and 2 black guys.  We 
never had problems with that sort of thing.  I sang Fats' "Black and 
Blue" every night for years.  No problem.
I'd come to the first line of the bridge, "I'm white..." and my black 
guys would say "I'm hip!" and we'd proceed.

Charlie