I recently read a story about Biden's black staffers leaving his administration en mass. Personally, I think if he were still sitting on a big black caucus like he used to, the black staff wouldn't be pulling out, but that's another conversation.
When I read this, I couldn't help imagining Biden casually singing "Jimmy Cracked Corn" as he strolls through the White House. I've no idea whether he does this or not, but it wouldn't be unusual, because this song is one of the most popular songs in American history, and I think most people have no idea how REALLY FUCKING WEIRD it is.
Did you know this song was about a slave whose job it was to swat flies away from a horse's asshole? I swear I'm not making this up. Apparently he sucked at his job, and a fly bit his master's horse right in his puckered asshole, and the horse panicked and bucked, and shot his master off his back and he landed head first on a rock that cracked his skull open. Oddly enough, this case went all the way to trial, and somehow a bunch of white slavers on the jury came to the conclusion that the slave was innocent. One can only imagine in a one-horse town full of shitkickin hillbillies, the dead slaver fucked all their wives or something.
This might be the single weirdest fuckin story I've ever read, and the only thing weirder is the fact that some fuckhead wrote a song about it, and that song became a song we all learned in elementary school growing up. What the hell is the lesson to be had there? To be sure not to miss a fly when commissioned to guard a horse's asshole? To never trust a slave to do so? To ensure slaves get their day in court and judged by a bunch of slavers? To make sure if you're a slaver, you do the right thing by a slave who killed his master? I don't know what the fuck to make of this story or the song, but just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder, try to imagine a choir director trying to arrange backup vocals for this song.
How many singers in this choir, when told what they were going to be singing, said "Is this seriously what my life has come to? I don't want to sing a song about slaves and horses' assholes! This is bullshit!"
I bet professional choirs have a high suicide rate, from the really stupid shit they're forced to sing. Maybe that's how choirs originally formed.
Here's how I imagine this conversation playing out...
"Dick, we're going to need a singer willing to sing some really, REALLY stupid shit."
"Well, Bob, considering how completely fuckin' retarded the lyrics are, we better hire at least 25."
"It's a solo, Dick."
"Well sure it is Bob, but nobody's going to want to sing this shit. For fuck's sake, Bob, the song is about a slave swatting flies away from a horse's asshole, and how sucking at it got his master killed. Would you want to sing this in front of a crowd? I figure a dozen won't even show, and another dozen are going to blow their brains out when they realize how low their career has sunk. Think about it, Bob. 25--if I'm right we got a solo, and if I'm wrong we got a choir!"
"I bet I'm not the only one who calls you "Dick," am I?"
"Oh, you're not alone in that, Bob. You're not alone."

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