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Nebenbei ist mir aufgefallen, dass der eigentliche Punch bei „Rednecks“ in Richtung Nordstaaten geht. Laut Newman ist Lester Maddox in dieser Talkshow kaum zu Wort gekommen, weil die Nordstaatler, welche sich moralisch überlegen glaubten, ihm dauernd das Wort abgeschnitten hatten. Und dann zählt er mal die ganzen Ghettos in den nördlichen Großstädten auf.
„Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he’s our fool
If they think they’re better than him they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song“
Dazu sagte Randy Newman dann nochmal in einem Interview: „And here he is, governor of a state – these people elected him in Georgia, however many million people voted for him – and I thought that if I were a Georgian, I would be angry.“
http://performingsongwriter.com/randy-newman-songs/
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