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Ode To Political Correctness by Justin Case

My, how things have changed since I was a lad
Now ev'rything has a new name.
I used to be called an American,
And my brother and sister the same.

My father is black, my mother is white
(although she was born in Siam),
But today I must carefully say it just right
So I've had to relearn what I am.

Here's what society says I must say
Whenever I have the occasion
"I'm Afro-American (Watusi tribe)
And Caucasian of Asian persuasion".

-but it goes beyond that, this renaming thing,
"Gay-lesbian rights" brings applause.
They march down the street, no longer discrete,
While the Feds are funding their cause.

Cousin Charles was a "homo",  Aunt Bessie a "dyke"
Grampa called them "three-dollar bills".
Today they're called "gay" (but, in their own way)
And both take birth-control pills.

Radical fems rob Federal coffers
To take kids away from their dads
And even when judges reduce men to paupers
They're N.O.W. called "deadbeats" and "cads".

Lord, I tire of all this semantic re-tweaking,
But methinks I am rising above it.
So take your correctness, politically speaking,
And do me a favor...just shove it!

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