Aaron Copeland, the great composer was hauled in by McCarthy. He was no communist. He was an American treasure. And neither were any of the people McCarthy hauled in, not in the Soviet communist sense. I doubt a single one of them supported the Soviet Union. Zero.
You think The Weavers folk group supported a Soviet military dictatorship which called itself communist? No way. Just the opposite. The Weavers simply supported the right of the little guy in this country to get a fair shake. They were populists. That's all. That's all any of them were. And issue by issue, I'll bet you can't find a single thing wrong with what any of the black-listed liberals believed in. In fact, I'll bet they were right on every issue if you examined it.
What? Are you against the right to assemble, free speech, organize labor unions, peace march, support civil rights, criticize the government, talk to foreigners, travel to the eastern block? If so then Johnny Cash was a communist too, and so were millions of patrotic, righteous, Christian law-abiding Americans. The only un-American A-hole in that group was McCarthy himself, he and J. Edgar Hoover, who probably had the Kennedys and ML King murdered.
"communists" my ass. None of them were. |
