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Excellent and timely - and as Dylan and Baez version of Guthrie's "Deportee" was recently shared with me ( which is the content you referred to, I think, as what might have been a common interpretation of "I Pity...", if one were not listening carefully), your short article and the inclusion of the link to Shahid Bolsen's video was helpful and really clarified the full dimensions/implications of the the song. I recall puzzling a great deal over the meaning of the song when the album came out and was recently surprised when I heard it on my car radio. Really appreciate you pulling it all together!

I find Bolsen quite compelling in his analysis. Always food for thought. There is a growing awareness that our ancestors' arrival and our heritage of displacing native peoples was/ became our own displacement....we were once indigenous somewhere too (Ireland, Germany, Italy etc etc) Now we have a culture described by Bolson as a "bus terminal"

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