<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Greetings Visionaires -</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Brad Paisley and LL Cool J just released (as in yesterday) "Accidental Racist" as their effort to reflect on racial equality.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">I personally find it to be inappropriate for almost any occasion.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Accidental Racist” by Brad Paisley and LL Cool J</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Accidental_Racist_Brad_Paisley_LL_Cool_J.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Accidental_Racist_Brad_Paisley_LL_Cool_J.mp3</a></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">"To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I'm a</span><span class="s3">Skynyrd</span><span class="s3"> fan</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">The red flag on my chest somehow is like the elephant in the corner of the south</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And I just walked him right in the room</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Just a proud rebel son with an '</span><span class="s3">ol</span><span class="s3"> can of worms</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Lookin</span><span class="s3">' like I got a lot to learn but from my point of view</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm just a white man </span><span class="s3">comin</span><span class="s3">' to you from the southland</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Tryin</span><span class="s3">' to understand what it's like not to be</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And it </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> like you and me can re-write history</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Our generation didn't start this nation</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">We're still </span><span class="s3">pickin</span><span class="s3">' up the pieces, </span><span class="s3">walkin</span><span class="s3">' on eggshells, </span><span class="s3">fightin</span><span class="s3">' over yesterday</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And caught between southern pride and southern blame</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">They called it Reconstruction, fixed the buildings, dried some tears</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">We're still </span><span class="s3">siftin</span><span class="s3">' through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">But it </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">'Cause I'm a white man </span><span class="s3">livin</span><span class="s3">' in the southland</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Just like you I'm more than what you see</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And it </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> like you and me can re-write history</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Our generation didn't start this nation</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And we're still paying for the mistakes</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">That a bunch of folks made long before we came</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And caught between southern pride and southern blame</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Dear Mr. White Man, I wish you understood</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">What the world is really like when you're </span><span class="s3">livin</span><span class="s3">' in the hood</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Just because my pants are </span><span class="s3">saggin</span><span class="s3">' doesn't mean I'm up to no good</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">You should try to get to know me, I really wish you would</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Now my chains are gold but I'm still misunderstood</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I wasn't there when Sherman's March turned the south into firewood</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I want you to get paid but be a slave I never could</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Feel like a new fangled </span><span class="s3">Django</span><span class="s3">, </span><span class="s3">dodgin</span><span class="s3">' invisible white hoods</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">So when I see that white cowboy hat, I'm </span><span class="s3">thinkin</span><span class="s3">' it's not all good</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I guess we're both guilty of </span><span class="s3">judgin</span><span class="s3">' the cover not the book</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'd love to buy you a beer, </span><span class="s3">conversate</span><span class="s3"> and clear the air</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn't here</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm just a white man</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(If you don't judge my do-rag)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Comin</span><span class="s3">' to you from the southland</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(I won't judge your red flag)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Tryin</span><span class="s3">' to understand what it's like not to be</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm proud of where I'm from</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(If you don't judge my gold chains)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">But not everything we've done</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(I'll forget the iron chains)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">It </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> like you and me can re-write history</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(Can't re-write history baby)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Oh, Dixieland</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(The relationship between the Mason-Dixon needs some </span><span class="s3">fixin</span><span class="s3">')</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I hope you understand what this is all about</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(Quite frankly I'm a black Yankee but I've been </span><span class="s3">thinkin</span><span class="s3">' about this lately)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">I'm a son of the new south</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(The past is the past, you feel me)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">And I just want to make things right</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(Let bygones be bygones)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">Where all that's left is southern pride</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">(RIP Robert E. Lee but I've </span><span class="s3">gotta</span><span class="s3"> thank Abraham Lincoln for freeing</span><span class="s3">me, know what I mean)</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">It's real, it's real</span><span class="s3"><br></span><span class="s3">It's truth."</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Might I recommend a classic, more appropriate song for uplifting a mixed social gathering . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">“</span><span class="s3">Ebony and Ivory</span><span class="s3">” by </span><span class="s3">Paul McCartney</span><span class="s3"> and </span><span class="s3">Stevie Wonder</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Ebony_and_Ivory_Paul_McCartney_Stevie_Wonder.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Ebony_and_Ivory_Paul_McCartney_Stevie_Wonder.mp3</a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4">"Ebony </span><span class="s4">And</span><span class="s4"> Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4">Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why Don't We? </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">There Is Good And Bad In </span><span class="s4">Ev'ryone</span><span class="s4">, </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive. </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Ebony </span><span class="s4">And</span><span class="s4"> Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord Why Don't We? </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Ebony, Ivory Living In Perfect Harmony </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Ebony, Ivory, Ooh </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">There Is Good And Bad In </span><span class="s4">Ev'ryone</span><span class="s4">, </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive. </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Ebony </span><span class="s4">And</span><span class="s4"> Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord Why Don't We? </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4">Ebony, Ivory Living In Perfect Harmony (Repeat </span><span class="s4">And</span><span class="s4"> Fade)"</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">-------------------------------------</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Thoughts?</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>