Friday, May 12, 2006

Rock On, Dude: Your Most Generous Tithe To
WHCB 91.5 FM Rock-n-Roll...



WPWT 870 AM "Good Morning Tri-Cities" has been off the air the past several days this week, so I figured that I would tune up to another radio station operated with your generous tithes to Appalachian Educational Communications Corporation and WHCB 91.5FM --- WHGG 1090 AM "The Mighty Ten Ninety" ---and catch some more of that "...rock-n-roll, soul, and motown" music.

Funny, because just moments after I tuned my radio to 1090 AM at 8:44 a.m. (Wednesday, as I best recall), "Indian Reservation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders starting playing "Indian Reservation" --- check out the lyrics:
Indian Reservation ( Paul Revere and the Raiders )

They took the whole Cherokee Nation
And put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife

They took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die

They took the whole Indian Nation
And locked us on this reservation
And though I wear a shirt and tie
I’m still a red man deep inside

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die

But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee Nation will return
Will return
Will return
Will return
Will return
Kenneth C. Hill

No, I don't think that it is at all "funny" that true Native Americans actually belonging to the Cherokee Nation were badly treated by American society, but rather, I find it very ironic that the State of Franklin PAC President, Sullivan County GOP State Executive Committee member, and Appalachian Educational Communications Corporation President Dr. Kenneth C. Hill self identifies himself on the FCC Ownership Forms for the various AECC - WHCB 91.5 FM radio stations as being "Native American" all while identifying himself as "white" on his Sullivan County application for State of Tennessee voter registration card since 1983...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home