"Sock It to Me"

[paulzjoh]

So what is Johnie Mathis?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: "Sock It to Me"


> On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: "Sock It to Me"
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> > Wilson writes:
> >>>>>>
> > FWIW, Ray Sharpe, OTOH, struck me as a black man who sang like a white
> > man.
> >  <<<<<
> >
> > 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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> >
> > -- Mark
> > [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
> >
>