Let's be reasonable - when someone like Billy Hill wrote a song, it became a classic in music. Songs, poems, books - they represent what life was like at that time. When people try to change the author's feelings, they become bigots. "Old Black Joe" isn't about Black people - it's about a black man someone loved enough to immortalize him in a song. Let's realize that "Politics" does not belong in literature unless it's a protest like "Mother Jones" - and remember that song was written at the time for a specific reason. I'm against people saying "We shouldn't even SAY 'Old Black Joe'. We need to keep our perspective of the times. Look at what has happened with the wonderful Walt Disney CLASSIC movie, "Song Of The South"! It is a beautiful STORY - but long AFTER the movie won an Academy Award for "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah", bigots got Disney to lock the film up in their vaults. I have this film, and my Grandkids love the tales told by Uncle Remus! But a FEW got this Classic fikm off the market! The grandkids don't even realize Uncle Remus was a slave! I just direct their attention to a little boy's personal trauma over his Mom and Dad's divorce, and how Uncle Remus loved the lad enough to teach a lesson using Br'er Rabbit and the others to make the boy laugh. I say, "Leave music, poetry, books alone as representative of their times. If you want to get rough, start complaining about the vulgar language on TV, and the disgusting pornographic action of Screaming jerks who can't carry a tune in a freight train!