People v. State

Ken at Popehat points out the eerie similarity between a song familiar to many from Sunday School and a song praising Barack Hussein Obama that was recently written, sung, recorded and distributed by a class of elementary school students.

Here’s a lyric from the latter:

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Here’s the refrain for the former:

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

In a comment to Ken’s post I recalled from my personal history another cheap ripoff of “Jesus Loves the Little Children.” As plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy back in the late ’80s we learned this marching cadence from an upperclassman, who I assumed learned it during his stint as an enlisted Marine prior to coming to USNA:

Napalm sticks to little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
Flaming torches in the night,
Napalm sticks to little children of the world.

Later that year the same upperclassman stopped by my dorm room. He asked if I thought I could kill another man if it was either me or him in a one-on-one fight to the death. Assuming he was questioning my inner ferocity, I said of course I could and would kill another man in such a situation. To my utter surprise, the upperclassman said he thought he’d rather just die. A couple months later, he had left the Naval Academy.

A couple years later, I had left too.

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