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Back in 2009 I saw the revival of SOUTH PACIFIC\u00a0<\/i>at Lincoln Center. \u00a0What a wonderful Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. \u00a0Those marvelous songs, “Younger Than Springtime”,”There’s Nothing Like A \u00a0Dame”, “Some Enchanted Evening”, but the song from the musical that has been repeating in my head since Charlottesville and Barcelona is, “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught”…<\/strong><\/p>\n You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear<\/em><\/span><\/strong> You’ve got to be taught to be afraid<\/em><\/span><\/strong> You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late<\/em><\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n With love and with \u00a0the hope that in my \u00a0old age I will \u00a0live to see prejudices of all forms disappear from this country and this world.<\/strong><\/p>\n Peace, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in 2009 I saw the revival of SOUTH PACIFIC\u00a0at Lincoln Center. \u00a0What a wonderful Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. \u00a0Those marvelous songs, “Younger Than Springtime”,”There’s Nothing Like A \u00a0Dame”, “Some Enchanted Evening”, but the song from the musical that has been repeating in my head since Charlottesville and Barcelona is, “You’ve Got To Be Carefully … Continue reading “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-because"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7svLB-py","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou’ve got to be taught from year to year<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nIt’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nYou’ve got to be carefully taught<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOf people whose eyes are oddly made<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd people whose skin is a diff’rent shade<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nYou’ve got to be carefully taught<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBefore you are six or seven or eight<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nTo hate all the people your relatives hate<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nYou’ve got to be carefully taught<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKAY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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