Originally Posted by rockin_m
thanks for your comments also Brian.My name is Michael LeBlanc and i'm not hiding behind my email or anything else from no one.You and some others did not like the song,that's fine,i don't mind.I feel i have written some pretty goods ones among the many calibers of lyricist here.It's just too bad you picked a bad lyric [to some]to be your first critique on any of my lyrics.Hasn't any of my others pleased you?Have you read any of them?But this song remains!Thanks for droppin' in,Michael LeBlanc



It's not simply a case of "others did not like the song, that's fine, I don't mind".

Those who've criticised this lyric have been trying to tell you, some more bluntly than others, that its flaws are a good deal more serious than that.

The lyric belittles racism. Not in a way that demonstrates the ridiculousness of racism - which is what Randy Newman would do and has done - but rather to ridicule the notion that racism exists.

Now you took my previous mention of Randy Newman to mean I was saying that you were "like Randy Newman". That was the message you wanted to hear but it isn't what I wrote. I contrasted Newman's style with yours to show that his songwriting style was the opposite of this one. Newman uses humour to mock and undermine prejudice, not to reinforce it. And his songs demonstrate empathy with others and their concerns. However, you're just dismissing those concerns as mere personal preferences expressed by people who are 'dumbazzes'.

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