Tribute to yip harburg. The man who put the rainbow in the wizard of oz democracy now special. All that and more coming up. Now me to democracy i am amy goodman. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. Railroad, made a race against time. I built a railroad, now it is done amy goodman and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow,. They called meow al amy goodman thats al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Dime . An you spare a dime . Spare a amy goodman brother, can you spare a dime . May well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. Hes best known for writing the lyrics to the wizard of oz, but he also had two
Hope and laughter. Amy goodman today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. The man who put the rainbow in the wizard of oz democracy now special. All that and more coming up. Now me to democracy i am amy goodman. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. Railroad, made a race against time. I built a railroad, now it is done amy goodman and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow,. They called meow al amy goodman thats al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Dime . An you spare a dime . Spare a amy goodman brother, can you spare a dime . May well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his wor to express antiracist, proworker messages. Hes best known for writing the lyric
Hinojosa do you think that there might be a time, lets say 100 years from now or 200 years from now, when other historians are looking back at this moment in history and saying, oh, god, those silly americans of back then. And these would be other americans. Yes. Hinojosa . Saying, well, god, they divided people up into race yeah. Hinojosa do you think that thats possible . Yes. If theyre historians, they wont cast judgment, however. Theyll just say, in the past, americans divided people up by race. They also divided people up by religion, so it used to be a really big deal if you were jewish or catholic. So these are categories that have fallen by the wayside, and conceivably, race could be another one. However, i will add that race is really in our national dna in a way that religion kind of isnt, and certainly not head shape, which was also important. Hinojosa okay, so when you say, its in our dna as a country. Mmhmm . Hinojosa . What does that. What does that mean . Well, one of ou
100 years from now or 200 years from now, when other historians are looking back at this moment in history and saying, oh, god, those silly americans of back then. And these would be other americans. Yes. Hinojosa . Saying, well, god, they divided people up into race yeah. Hinojosa do you think that thats possible . Yes. If theyre historians, they wont cast judgment, however. Theyll just say, in the past, americans divided people up by race. They also divided people up by religion, so it used to be a really big deal if you were jewish or catholic. So these are categories that have fallen by the wayside, and conceivably, race could be another one. However, i will add that race is really in our national dna in a way that religion kind of isnt, and certainly not head shape, which was also important. Hinojosa okay, so when you say, its in our dna as a country. Mmhmm . Hinojosa . What does that. What does that mean . Well, one of our great values is freedom, and freedom makes sense with its
Hope and laughter. Amy today we pay to be to the blacklisted lyricist yip harburg. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer abbey lincoln. Being crosby saying that. Yip harburg wrote it. I built a railroad i built a railroad, now its done brother, can you spare a dime amy and tom waits. Bricks and mortar amy judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans. And peter yarrow. Is al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Dime you spare a you spare a dime amy brother, can you spare a dime . May well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express antiracist, proworker messages. Hes best known for writing the lyri