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RACISM & ICE CREAM: NPR, ‘Buying Ice Cream From Ice Cream Truck Supports Racism’(language warning)
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| 5/13/14
Posted on 05/13/2014 10:13:35 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: rktman
The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays “Helter Skelter “
Steven Wright
To: rktman
The ice cream truck that comes through my area frequently plays “La Cucaracha.” I don’t find that very appetizing.
“The Cockroach”?
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:19:37 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: rktman
I was always taught these lyrics to that tune:
"Well I had a little chicken and she wouldn't lay an egg.
So I poured hot water up and down her leg.
Oh the little chicken cried and the little chicken begged,
And the little chicken laid me a hard boiled egg!"
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:28:05 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says “shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
To: NTHockey
It amazes me how history is so often viewed through the enlightened glasses of today, rather than the lens of the time.
The moral superiority is enough to gag a maggot.
That is also noticeable in a some TV series that are set, for example, in the 1870s, but try to apply modern PC to them.
I watched one series via Netflix from Canada. It protrayed live in a boarding school out in the country. One of the later episodes was anti-gun. Anti-gun, out in the country, in the 1870s? Thankfully, not all of the characters were anti-gun and one guy had one hidden. It came in handy to fend off bandits.
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:30:42 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: GeronL
If Theodore R. Johnson, III needs material for his next NPR piece, he should check out
Life Magazine's August 27, 1965 issue, page 60 bottom, where there is a little item on a gun shop in Fern Park, Florida, offering a unique "guarantee" on one of their 12-gauge models.
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:36:05 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: rktman
Only the truly culturally ignorant would not know that it is folk song called Turkey in the Straw
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: cynwoody
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:39:07 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Bob
I can certainly remember Eenie Meenie Minee Mo from the 1950s which was before it was changed to use the word tiger.
Another story idea for Teddy Three-sticks: Check out the 1922 Stan Laurel film The Pest.
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:48:39 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: rktman
How many people are alive today who would have possibly heard those 1916 racist lyrics and who would associate the tune to them? The tune for our national anthem was an 18th century English drinking song so does that make playing the Star Spangled Banner offensive to recovering alcoholics?
To: cripplecreek; JoeProBono; GeronL
Ice Cream!
You Scream!
We all scream, for racism!!!
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:23:36 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
OH! So it’s a song about animal abuse!
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:24:57 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
OH! So its a song about animal abuse! Uh, yuh.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:40:24 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says "shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I tell my children that it’s the “child catcher” when they hear that song.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:41:56 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
I tell my children that its the child catcher when they hear that song. Oh that's perfect. No kids running around yelling, "Ice cream!!!"
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:10:44 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says "shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
To: rktman
I am going to listen to my NWA cassette for some good old fashion non-pc rap music about pimpin’ hos, slingin’ dope and bussin’ caps.
To: WayneS
The elites at NPR could have taken away from this something like, ‘wow, in contrast to today, that’s really racist - we’re far from that now’. But no. This.
To: OldNewYork
How does buying ice cream from a truck “support” racism, exactly? How much of the revenue is earmarked to support racist endeavors? I would bet none
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posted on
05/13/2014 3:48:02 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: GeronL
Why can’t they just make it real simple and come out and say what they really mean, “If you’re white, you’re racist.”
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posted on
05/13/2014 3:48:50 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: PeteB570
Ive never heard an Ice Cream truck around here play Turkey in the Straw.
Neither have I. The usually play a tinkly, little, anemic bell tune. I usually associate "Turkey in the Straw" with fiddles. Just about any folk tune that's been around long enough could have been put to bad uses at one time or another.
I just wonder how many idiots are automatically going to assume that the music they heard coming from the ice creme truck just had to be "Turkey in the Straw" and just had to be racist because some idiot at NPR told them so.
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posted on
05/13/2014 4:00:24 PM PDT
by
x
To: Organic Panic
Uh, Neanderthals with attitude? LOL!
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posted on
05/13/2014 7:05:09 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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