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November 05, 2004
I aks you, what be up wit dat Joan Baez? In the classic early '60s novel A Confederacy of Dunces there was a rebellious young Jewish heiress named Myrna Minkoff. Perhaps the funniest thing in a very funny book was the back story description of the Minkoff character. College girl Myrna spent a summer traveling the rural South, attempting to teach black folk Negro spirituals and work songs that she had learned from Library of Congress recordings.
Of course, that was satire. No one would actually act that damned stupid.
Unless they would. Check out this report from Reason science editor Ron Bailey, detailing a Joan Baez concert the day after Bush's re-election:
Alice, the black teenager from Arkansas Baez was pretending to be, spoke in a dialect so broad and thick that it would put Uncle Remus and Amos and Andy to shame. Baez' monologue was filled with phrases like, "I'se g'win ta" to do this that or the other and dropping all final "g's." Baez as Alice made statements like, "de prezident, he be a racist," and "de prezident, he got a bug fer killin'."
Now, not to put too fine a point on it, but Myrna Minkoff would have had the excuse of being a teenager. Joan Baez, on the other hand, is 63. What's her problem?
