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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Daniels is dead. [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)41. Pointing out that Charlie Daniels was a racist isn't "grave-dancing"
It's just stating a fact about him.
And, for me, that fact tarnished and diminished him in life and is why his death doesn't make me feel the need to lionize him. That's not grave-dancing. I take no joy in his death nor do I revel in it or mock him. But I'm not going to compartmentalize him, either.
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His early music was good, and he was a good musician (played on Dylan albums, etc.). n/t
blitzen
Jul 2020
#8
Later in life Charlie Daniels was the result of right wing media consumption.
tenderfoot
Jul 2020
#9
Ray Wylie Hubbard to the Devil: "I thought your solo was the better of the two"...
blitzen
Jul 2020
#13
It is good that we have those so much wiser here to show us how we should think, is it not?
Tipperary
Jul 2020
#55
Him: "in the future Darwinism will be looked upon as we now look upon the flat earth theory"
USALiberal
Jul 2020
#54