Woody Guthrie's All You Fascists Bound to Lose

[JudyM]

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[Indepatriot]

1. THANK YOU!

[countryjake]

2. With an incredibly pertinent connection to this...

New documents reveal how Donald Trump’s racist dad inspired Woody Guthrie’s most bitter writings ~
posted by IDemo

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027550377

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an equal share for all in America. Below that is the signature of Donald Trump’s father, Fred. No pairing could appear more unlikely.

Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before been published; they should be, for they clearly pit America’s national balladeer against the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire.

[JudyM]

3. 'Zactly. Nt

[countryjake]

5. Here's Woody's unpublished indictment of the Trump Empire...

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/new-documents-reveal-how-donald-trumps-racist-dad-inspired-woody-guthries-most-bitter-writings/

~snip~

For Guthrie, Fred Trump came to personify all the viciousness of the racist codes that continued to put decent housing – both public and private – out of reach for so many of his fellow citizens:

I suppose

Old Man Trump knows

Just how much

Racial Hate

he stirred up

In the bloodpot of human hearts

When he drawed

That color line

Here at his

Eighteen hundred family project ....


And as if to leave no doubt over Trump’s personal culpability in perpetuating black Americans’ status as internal refugees – strangers in their own strange land – Guthrie reworked his signature Dust Bowl ballad “I Ain’t Got No Home” into a blistering broadside against his landlord:


Beach Haven ain't my home!

I just cain't pay this rent!

My money's down the drain!

And my soul is badly bent!

Beach Haven looks like heaven

Where no black ones come to roam!

No, no, no! Old Man Trump!

Old Beach Haven ain't my home!



Sung to this tune:

[JudyM]

10. Whew. Well tRump is pretty much inviting old ghosts to be dredged up, so here they come.

[countryjake]

12. Like father, like son. Their bigoted ideology is the same...

reaping huge profits (and the support of racists) with such Capitalist divisiveness. Nothing old about it...it's the same as it ever was.

Fascism.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. I used to start out each workday with the Billy Bragg version

I worked in an office building, but was almost always the first one there, so I usually turned it up to 11.

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[JudyM]

6. Ha, that's great. I like him, too.

[Roland99]

9. +!

[NWProf]

7. Gene Roddenberry said it best

Gene Roddenberry through the voice of Dr. McCoy said it best:

It has been my experience that evil usually wins unless good is very, very strong.

That has been my experience, too, so let's resolve to dedicate ourselves to work for our candidate (Go Bernie!), stay positive, get active (phone banking, doorbelling, financial support) and Woodie's song will ring true.

(Thanks JudyM! Woodie has been a hero of mine since I visited Grand Coulee Dam in WA state in the early 70s. His songs so captured the immensity of the project.)

[JudyM]

11. Yes, all hands on deck, Captain.

[Roland99]

8. And love the Billy Bragg and Wilco version from Mermaid Ave. Vol II

[BernTheRich]

13. Love it! Thank you for posting, JudyM!

And many thanks to Woody, wherever he may be.