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I thought it was a reference to the religious views of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> "singing" "the national anthem"
>
> Well, I've often said that the use of melisma in singing should be
> restricted in its use to singers of observable, known, or claimed
> sub-Saharan-African descent.
>
> In the case cited, WRT to Ms. Aguilera, it's not clear whether that
> rule should have been enforced. It's been bandied about in gossip mags
> and on gossip sites that there's a strong possibility of a nigger her
> ancestral woodpile. If that rumor  be true, well, if she wants to get
> down with the colored people and blow melismatic sound, well, she has
> a right.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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