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Yeah, Seth

Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 5:19 AM
From:Ryan Strassburg
To: rogovoy@berkshire.net
Subject:Yeah, Seth

Hey Seth, I was jumpin' around on the internet and came across your article in the Berkshire Eagle called The Beat. What a trip. Wow, you blew my mind away with your sarcastic wit. Let me breathe in once again. Ooh la la. Wouldn't we all love to follow 'the great tradition of protest folk... Woody Guthrie running through Bob Dylan.' Hey you might as well tell me that this land is your land, this land is my land and you've got to serve somebody other than yourself. Ellis Paul and Dan Bern painted two different portraits with two different songs on the topic of racism. What's new? The fact that we all in our own mind carry jaded views of black against white vice versa is irrelavent but detrimental to our survival as one nation. Maybe we all have our own pretty pictures and maybe we have our own distorted pictures, but are they too idealogical that we have to use some sort of physical or verbal violence. Who knows? Those pictures are our own whether they are colored by another human or not. Bern and Paul try to shorten these boundaries by the power of music. Fuck art. We are all bigots in one way or another whether or not we'd like to admit it. But, I will leave the two of us the opportunity to overcome our own short comings to look beyond friendship between black and white and the differences that we choose to point out and overlook. Rock on Folk Ryan Strassburg



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