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    The document discusses Dylan's speech at the Musicares awards where he references pinning someone down to the ground. It claims many of Dylan's early songs contained racist subtext, though this was not obvious to most listeners. Dylan asserts he was just writing songs and did not intend any division or hidden meanings.

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    The document discusses Dylan's speech at the Musicares awards where he references pinning someone down to the ground. It claims many of Dylan's early songs contained racist subtext, though this was not obvious to most listeners. Dylan asserts he was just writing songs and did not intend any division or hidden meanings.

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    More references to when Dylan jumped me

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    The document discusses Dylan's speech at the Musicares awards where he references pinning someone down to the ground. It claims many of Dylan's early songs contained racist subtext, though this was not obvious to most listeners. Dylan asserts he was just writing songs and did not intend any division or hidden meanings.

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    Alan Jules Weberman
    The document discusses Dylan's speech at the Musicares awards where he references pinning someone down to the ground. It claims many of Dylan's early songs contained racist subtext, though this was not obvious to most listeners. Dylan asserts he was just writing songs and did not intend any division or hidden meanings.

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    DURING HIS SPEECH AT THE MUSICARE AWARDS DYLAN MAKES

    REFERENCE TO THE TIME HE PINNED ME DOWN TO THE GROUND

    All these songs are connected. Don't be fooled. I just opened up a different
    door in a different kind of way. It's just different, saying the same thing. I
    didn't think it was anything out of the ordinary.

    Dylan was writing songs with racist subcontent from the get go including
    the all time favorite Blowin’ in the Wind. Of course I don’t expect you to
    believe this but it is true nonetheless. When he switched to rock and roll the
    same subcontent was embedded.

    Well you know, I just thought I was doing something natural, but right from
    the start, my songs were divisive for some reason. They divided people. I
    never knew why. Some got angered, others loved them. Didn't know why
    my songs had detractors and supporters. A strange environment to have to
    throw your songs into, but I did it anyway.

    They were divisive okay in that they favored dividing people – the Whites
    on one Side and the Blacks on the other. Just as we have today because
    integration in America did not pan out. Some rock poets who were aware of
    Dylan’s racist subcontent were angry that their role model turned out to be
    Jewish cracker; others were happy about it. He knew why, because of the
    issue of race, his songs had detractors and supporters it was a hot button
    issue and still is. The world of other rock poets, who tended to be liberal or
    radical like John Lennon was a strange environment to preach racism in,
    but he did it anyway but throwing his songs in with the others. Fact is most
    ordinary folk didn’t have a clue to what Dylan was singing about nor did I
    until one day I finally figured it out from the line in Please Crawl Out Your
    Window “he looks so righteous but your face (race) is so changed.” I knew
    face was race from When the Ship Comes In – “the sun will respect every
    face on the deck” blah blah.

    Last thing I thought of was who cared about what song I was writing. I was
    just writing them. I didn't think I was doing anything different. I thought I
    was just extending the line.

    The last thing I thought of was that an AJ Weberman would come along
    and claim to care about the apolitical overt content of the songs I was
    writing. I thought I was just doing the same racist schtick I had always
    done.

    Maybe a little bit unruly, but I was just elaborating on situations. Maybe
    hard to pin down, but so what? A lot of people are hard to pin down and
    you’ve just got to bear it. In a sense everything evened itself out.

    When Dylan jumped me perhaps he was a bit unruly but he was just
    reacting to my having had a run in with his wife earlier that day. Maybe I
    would be hard to pin down to the ground but he had to take that chance.
    True Weberman might have been hard to pin down but I could no longer
    bear it. I got even with him that day for all of his shenanigans.

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