Was Shel Silverstein just being crass <br />in the lyric sung by Johnny Cash - <br />or was he being amazingly, subversively, <br />unamericanly ironic? <br />The boy was not a boy, but a lot of men and women <br />their name not Sue but Sioux, <br />and ethnically cleansed by some of American Democracy's <br />many land-grabs and pogroms <br />carried out by racist rednecks <br />and Ulstermen with bombs. <br /> <br />(many more than 9 million aboriginal Americans were killed in every possible way by Europeans)<br /><br />Anthony Weir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/people-called-sioux-a-holocaust-poem/
