http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/12/17/no-sense-of-humor/ The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. - Pete Seeger Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:49:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/12/17/no-sense-of-humor/#comment-318 Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:32:41 +0000 http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/12/17/no-sense-of-humor/#comment-318 I posted a comment for Dan Mobius, to the effect that he should make a t-shirt that says "Jesus is my nigga." It wouldn't violate the plaintiff's TM or copyright issues. It would provoke a similar reaction by using confrontational language. And it would stimulate the same kind of modern denial of Jesus' roots--his blackness rather than his Jewishness. It's actually, come to think of it, a neat link between black resistance and Jewish resistance. There has long been an alliance between the two minorities, particularly during the sixties in the States, and it's compelling to understand that solidarity as originating in Jesus' complex identity. I posted a comment for Dan Mobius, to the effect that he should make a t-shirt that says “Jesus is my nigga.” It wouldn’t violate the plaintiff’s TM or copyright issues. It would provoke a similar reaction by using confrontational language. And it would stimulate the same kind of modern denial of Jesus’ roots–his blackness rather than his Jewishness. It’s actually, come to think of it, a neat link between black resistance and Jewish resistance. There has long been an alliance between the two minorities, particularly during the sixties in the States, and it’s compelling to understand that solidarity as originating in Jesus’ complex identity.

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