[bkopto]

The march towards Year Zero continues.

[rktman]

The Wuhan clan? What?

[mylife]

I always assumed they use “Turkey in the Straw” because there are no copy rites.

[throwthebumsout]

I am glad to see them focusing on the real social issues of our time instead of, say, the daily body counts in Chicago.

[mylife]

“Turkey in the Straw” doesn’t stop black kids here from lining up for ice cream.

[dfwgator]

What’s wrong with using Van Halen’s “Ice Cream Man”?

[KarlInOhio]

I doubt that one person in a thousand associated Turkey in the Straw with anything other than annoying kids demanding money to buy overpriced, underflavored ice cream.

This is like the people who sued an airline for the stewardess saying "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Pick a seat, we've got to go" for being a racist rhyme.

[IYAS9YAS]

Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics.”

Let me get this straight, the melody is used, and none of the trucks I’ve heard in my 51 years on the planet have ever had lyrics, just the tune. But because some people made “offensive” lyrics to this melody, they’re dropping the melody.

Maybe they should change it to Helter Skelter.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Whatever happened to the Good Humor man, or Mr. Softee ice cream trucks?

Nowadays, I see dudes in beat up old vans selling ice cream. The Good Humor and Mr. Softee trucks have disappeared, at least from my area.

[PGR88]

I don’t know. Ice creams trucks playing rap-music, and driven by Bangladeshis just won’t have quite the same feel.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics.”

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Wait. Are they talking about Turkey in the Straw, or your average ordinary rap song?

[Leaning Right]

> Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics. <

Wait a minute. This is beyond insanity. Now melodies themselves are racist? Suppose someone writes racist lyrics to an innocent melody like the one used in ‘Happy Birthday’. Would the ‘Happy Birthday’ song itself then be banned?

I guess so.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Moving us forward by dwelling on the past, and finding only negative things about it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does this mean we can take a song that popular with the left and add racist lyrics to it so they will be forced to ban it?

-PJ

[hanamizu]

“... it is undeniable that this melody conjures memories of its racist iterations”

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Conjures memories in whom? Are they seriously contending that sensitive black kids shied away from the Good Humor truck? That their parents or grandparents told them how any tune that was performed in minstrel shows in the 1880s is racist and demeaning to them?

This garbage is going to have to stop sooner or later. It cannot continue to go on.

[yuleeyahoo]

Most people to whom I have conversed about this issue site this 1916 version as to why it needs to be banned: Ice Cream Truck Song

[ifinnegan]

When I was growing up Turkey in the Straw was not the ice cream truck song.

I remember the song well but don’t know it’s name.

Anyone remember?

[Islander7]

Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics.”

Ok, we can ban Rap and Hip Hop for those same reasons.

[rey]

Is there anyone still around who ever went to a minstrel show? Is there anyone around who knows the lyrics to Turkey in the Straw? I had to look it up and fail to find anything offensive.

[Verginius Rufus]

The ice cream trucks when I was a kid played that tune but I never realized it was the tune from “Turkey in the Straw.” Like Solon, I grow old always learning new things.

[raccoonradio]

Associated with a song called Old Zip
Coon.One version from 1916 was called
N——r Love A Watermelon Ha Ha Ha

Here’s a version of Old Zip Coon by
The 2nd South Carolina String Band

https://youtu.be/ubXiEW40bUA

This group does a great version of
Dixie.One version of that on youtube
was done at a spirited festival in
Gettysburg.Dixie’s melody is also used
in To Arms In Dixie, here by
Tennessee Ernie Ford
https://youtu.be/—mHN-8O9Cw
“To arms, to arms, and conquer
peace for Dixie”