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11 Popular Songs You Didn’t Realize Are Actually Racist
Reader's Digest ^ | 6/21/23 | Jeremy Helligar

Posted on 07/11/2023 5:48:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff

You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time.

“Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones

Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make it hurt so good as he sings, “Hear him whip the women just around midnight.”

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To: DallasBiff

This guy is going to freak out when he discovers David Allan Coe


21 posted on 07/11/2023 6:10:12 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: DallasBiff

“...She says, “Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side”
Said, “Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side”
And the colored girls go
“Doo do doo do doo do do doo...”


22 posted on 07/11/2023 6:13:14 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DallasBiff

Well let me take a break from listening to Hoyt Axton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36uOUSJFjE

And skip over Johnny Horton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuznGokgCk8

and listen to some inspirational music from Charlie Daniels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuznGokgCk8


23 posted on 07/11/2023 6:13:23 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: DallasBiff

Readers digest has become another modernist trashcan... or why nobody reads it anymore.


24 posted on 07/11/2023 6:13:41 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: DallasBiff

Been the goal all along of the Left/BLM/Antifa/Dims.


25 posted on 07/11/2023 6:15:18 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Responsibility2nd


Now, I’d like to speak about the subject of a certain Mick Jagger – of the Rolling Stones. … And I’m going to talk about the song he sang — a song in which he sings these very words: “Black girls – just want to have sex – all night long.” …

Now, Mr. Jagger, there is only one question I want to ask you — Jaggs. … And you better have the answer, man, you better have the answer, since you have besmirched the character of black women.

Therefore, here is my question, Jaggs. [pause, takes off eyeglasses, suddenly drops the pose, pleading]

Where are all of these black broads, man? …[huge cheers and applause]

Hey, like, where ARE they, baby? You got any phone numbers for me, baby? …Please send ’em to me.

[puts glasses back on,dignified again] Thank you. … [enthusiastic applause]
26 posted on 07/11/2023 6:17:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Larry Lucido
Racist? This one takes the cake. David Allan Coe. I can't even post the link.

Do not mouse over the link or click it unless you want to be offended.

27 posted on 07/11/2023 6:18:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Of course if…Guns and Roses had made a song denigrating black girls, they'd be ineligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they'd be blacklisted from the music industry, their music would have been boycotted, etc.

Exhibit 1: One in a Million" is the eighth track on American rock band Guns N' Roses' 1988 album G N' R Lies. It is based on singer Axl Rose's experience of getting hustled at a Greyhound bus station when he first came to Los Angeles…

28 posted on 07/11/2023 6:19:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DallasBiff

Screw this race baiting author.


29 posted on 07/11/2023 6:19:55 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: DallasBiff

Eff these people. They just try and turn down my gramophone and see what happens.


30 posted on 07/11/2023 6:20:57 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: DallasBiff

I understood Bowie’s “China Girl” as anti-imperialist and anti-White man.

“A-rab” may be offensive, but it’s a long way from the “n-word.”

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was an attempt at a Southern populist anthem. Not everybody will love it or approve of it, but if Joan Baez could sing it, it’s probably not racist in any serious sense.

The comments on “Right Here, Right Now” are asinine. A white singer writes a song inspired by two Black artists he doesn’t wholly agree with, and he’s a racist? No, that’s a conversation, and not a conversation about race, either (the world didn’t “wake up from history,” but that’s another story).

“Your Squaw Is on the Warpath” by Loretta Lynn? Offensive? You can find thousands of songs from the 19th and early 20th century that are more offensive. You can’t even print the titles in “Reader’s Digest.” As with the list of “racist movies” posted earlier to day, the writer just reveals how little he really knows.

“Turning Japanese”? Think of it as a complement to all the songs about how horrible Western civilization is. People are as scared of the world turning into Tokyo as they are of it turning into Los Angeles or New York City.

“Island Girl” by [Bernie Taupin and] Elton John? Yeah, that is pretty racist. “Jamaica Jerk-Off” probably is, too. The point of rock music back then was to be offensive.


31 posted on 07/11/2023 6:23:21 PM PDT by x
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To: circlecity
This guy is going to freak out when he discovers David Allan Coe

 

 

I heard that. See my post 27.And here I thought DAC only wrote perfect country and western songs.

32 posted on 07/11/2023 6:23:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: DallasBiff

“Black Betty” didn’t make the list?


33 posted on 07/11/2023 6:24:14 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: dfwgator

34 posted on 07/11/2023 6:25:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Slipping into Darkness” -By, War.


35 posted on 07/11/2023 6:26:59 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Indians scattered on dawns highway, bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.”


36 posted on 07/11/2023 6:28:31 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: IncPen

Have you ever been driving roun’
And end up in the colored part of town...

And I better stop right there! First heard this way back in 1968.


37 posted on 07/11/2023 6:32:22 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: DallasBiff

I went to the link, but it’s literally unreadable. What’s with this trend of using light gray text on a white background? Eyestrain city.

I did notice that the Illegal Alien song by Genesis was on the list.

Another song that Phil Collins was at least tangentially involved in was called “Dance of the Illegal Aliens.” It probably didn’t make the list because the author is unaware of the band’s existence, and/or because it’s an instrumental only piece.
Phil played drums and sang on a couple tracks from the same album that this song was on (”Product” by Brand X).

If you like jazz/fusion, mash here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1yk48LZ-jg


38 posted on 07/11/2023 6:32:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: circlecity

Bowie F’d up with China girl. Brown sugar-anyone see an element of protest there>
Stewart-Every picture-I got some teaching moments in it. Slant eyed?-something like that. Lotta guys know that.


39 posted on 07/11/2023 6:33:01 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: dfwgator
Ahhh. Garrett Morris.

I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.

40 posted on 07/11/2023 6:33:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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