Posted on 12/11/2014 9:59:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
The Chicago police officer who played "Sweet Home Alabama" from of a police car during a West Side anti-police-violence protest over the weekend will be disciplined, according to a news release sent from the Chicago Police Department on Thursday.
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That is objectively true, or not. I have no idea which.
"It's nostalgia for the pre-civil rights South," he told RedEye earlier this week.
Well, that's certainly true. Not that the pre-civil rights South was entirely and only about oppression of blacks.
It’s one of those “dog whistles”!
I prefer the Leningrad Cowboys version. One fellow I knew once worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center—wrote a book about the KKK. His high school band wore fake Confederate uniforms and played Dixie.
He should have played “Old Black Joe.”
>> You can’t play Sweet Home Alabama in America anymore?
Sure, but not from a police car at a riot (oops, I mean a protest) ;-)
God bless him for trying, though. I’m glad to hear there are cops exhibiting an attitude of “had it to here” instead of rolling over and sucking up to the street vermin.
I did some rind-a-longs with the Monroe, LA police while in college. After one particularly wild foot chase that involved multiple units, one officer cranked up the theme song for “COPS” as loud as he could. By the way, it was 2 AM in pretty much the worst neighborhood in town. No way he could get away with that now.
I think “The Souths Gonna Do It Again” would have been much more appropriate for the occasion. LOL. “Save your Confederate Money be proud you’re a Rebel because the Souths gonna do it again”.
Priceless. A needed morning laugh. Thanks.
I bet every football player from the University of Alabama knows all the words to this song and sings it. I bet every one of the former players sing it when they come home. Sweet Home Alabama ROLL TIDE ROLL, Lord I’m comin’ home to you . . .
Don’t you know? “Sweet”, “Home”, and “Alabama” are all racists white privilege words. Other words on the verboten list are “individual”, “responsible”, “liberty”, and “freedom”.
“its not a terribly good song “
For a three chord melody with one change up and no bridge it’s a damn near perfect song!
If they played Wagner (the racist composer who inspired Hitler), I bet they wouldn’t have cared.
There is such a thing as professionalism while on duty. I'd bet there are 100s of possibilities for similar to be done that you would heartily disagree with.
I thought it went Roll Tide Roll Roll Tide Roll. Around the bowl and down the hole Role Tide Roll. I heard it in Neyland Stadium many a time... as I post this ducking for cover.. LOL.
And also “Constitution.”
or perhaps this rap....
• From the Rapper Million $$ Bill....
Kill the Rapper,Kill him dead
Shoot the Brother in the head
Crush his throat with his gold chain
Watch the video of his pain.
Hate the bastard, the illigit
Mouthing nonsensense, verbal shit
The story here that we must tell
Let the sob rot in hell
LOL.
I don’t mind. I love college football and all the rivalries and traditions. Even the annoying ones. One of our sons played football this year at a park that has a good mix of black and white among the players and coaches. If the Michael Browns and their dads did more of what the folks we see every Saturday do, then there wouldn’t be Michael Browns robbing stores and challenging cops and wrestling cops in their cars. They wouldn’t end up dead by cops. Our park is made up of middle class, hard working Americans of all races. We play and pray together. It is a good example of people working together and mostly ignoring that we have different skin colors. We can all sing Sweet Home Alabama, too. and some might throw in War Eagle, a Hail State, or even a Hotty Toddy. You don’t hear a lot of Rocky Top around here though. Lol.
Define irony - a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
- Con Air - Garland Greene
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