Okie Funk: Notes From The Outback - Toby Keith: We'll Put A Boot In Your Vocabulary, Y'All

Commentary on OLA's Read Ya'll campaign. now ya'll know I don't much care for Mr. Keith's music or some of his political stances--but I am well beyond impressed at the impact the Read Ya'll campaign has had at pulling Okie's back to reading and visiting the library. That being the case I proudly stand next to my friends in the South and say "Dang nabbit! Does it matter how ya get all them'all to read--has long as they are reading?"
Why don't ya'll head over to Okie Funk and show some love for literacy advocacy?

Okie Funk: Notes From The Outback - Toby Keith: We'll Put A Boot In Your Vocabulary, Y'All: "There is Keith, lying down, with the vernacular expression “Read Y’ALL” next to him. There is much wrong with this poster, which is part of the fight against illiteracy in the state. First, there is Keith himself, certainly not a model of reading or academia. Then there is the expression, “y’all,” which contradicts any sense that this illiteracy effort is based on sound reading and writing principles.

So here is Keith serving as both the icon of American military might and empire and Oklahoma reading and intelligence. It is tragic. I think the Iraq war has proven it is wrong to base our foreign policy on “we’ll PUT a boot in your ass/It’s the American way.” And there are plenty of wonderful people in the world of Oklahoma academia who could serve as intellectual and 'reader' models besides Keith."