"Sock It to Me"

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

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> Wilson writes:
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> FWIW, Ray Sharpe, OTOH, struck me as a black man who sang like a white
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> How 'bout Mose Allison?

As a black man who sings like a white man? I didn't realize that he was
black, though I have no problem accepting that he is, by virtue of the
one-drop rule. If that rule was dropped [no pun intended], I'd find
myself in a different "race" from some of my cousins and from my late
grandparents.

-Wilson Gray

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