NAACP Delegate Calls for Boycott of Country Music!

First Baptist Church (Foot-Washing) of Cordele, Georgia Bulletin | Summer 2002 | Ralph P. Stansberry, Deacon

[parsifal]

NAACP Delegate Calls for Boycott of Country Music!

Rev. Mohammed X. Bagheera, delegate at large to the recent NAACP convention, called for a boycott of Country and Western Music. Rev. Bagheera was known as Leroy T. Washington before his conversion to Islam and once lived in Albany, Georgia. Asked about his call for a boycott, Rev. Bagheera offered this insight into his past: "I remember being chased down a dirt road by two good old white boys in a pickup truck. They had Honky Hank Williams blaring on the radio as they was chasing me. He was moanin'some kind of blues as I remember. If that song hadn't ended and the station started playing a religious song, "On The Wings of a Dove", I figure I would have been a goner. A thing like that will mark you, for sure."

It was pointed out that in a recent Music City poll, less than one percent of Black-Americans listened to Country and Western Music. Rev. Bagheera replied, "Well, it ain't the numbers that count, it's the thought. Nobody thought we could get the Confederate Flag down either, but we're winning that battle. We have even boycotted the whole state of South Carolina. We can sure boycott some radio stations."

Rev. Bagheera also lamented the lack of black country music magicians. "Everybody knows that Little Richard is responsible for country music as we know it today, but the only country music performer of color was Charlie Pride."

Representatives of several Nashville studios refused public comments, but privately stated that they foresaw little impact from the boycott. As one un-named executive pointed out, "Country and Western Music is no longer the resort of the uneducated red neck. Our demographics show the average consumer of "rural pop" as we classify C&W, makes nearly $6.00 per hour and drives a pickup truck that is less than three years old."

Rev. Bagheera was also questioned concerning the inclusion of "Western" music in the boycott. He pointed out, " They are just as bad as the country songs. A lot of them cowboy songs include racist code words. Take that song "Rawhide" for example. "Rope and throw and brand ‘em" refers to marking slaves. "Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves."

(Plea for Special Love Offering to counter the boycott omitted)

[parsifal]

I went to this church a few times when I was a kid. Still get their bulletins. Not sure if story is accurate or not. I once made an offering to help stop the satanists at Proctor and Gamble, before I knew better. parsy the naive.

[parsifal]

Ping for a fellow ex-Georgian. parsy.

[patton]

Parsy, this has to be onion.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Representatives of several Nashville studios refused public comments, but privately stated that they foresaw little impact from the boycott. As one un-named executive pointed out, "Country and Western Music is no longer the resort of the uneducated red neck. Our demographics show the average consumer of "rural pop" as we classify C&W, makes nearly $6.00 per hour and drives a pickup truck that is less than three years old."

LOL...at least this much of it appears to be bogus...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Rev. Mohammed X. Bagheera"

And wasn't Bagheera the Black Panther in the "Jungle Book"?

LOL...MUD

[sweetliberty]

'fess up parsy. Was that you chasing that boy??

[Morgan's Raider]

A lot of them cowboy songs include racist code words. Take that song "Rawhide" for example. "Rope and throw and brand ‘em" refers to marking slaves. "Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves."

How stupid can this sumbitch get??? Apparantly he's been taking 'racist behind every tree' lessons from Morris Dees.

[parsifal]

Naw. I was too young to drive when I lived there. But I wouldn't put it past some of the folks I knew. parsy.

[patton]

(Pasifal made this up.)

[CaptRon]

Rev. Bagheera was also questioned concerning the inclusion of "Western" music in the boycott. He pointed out, " They are just as bad as the country songs. A lot of them cowboy songs include racist code words. Take that song "Rawhide" for example. "Rope and throw and brand ‘em" refers to marking slaves. "Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves."

Must be true because he says so . Of course, he has absolutely nothing to back this up but there are people who will believe them.

[Cato the Censor]

Morris Dees was the 90 pound weakling sitting with the hot babe on the beach at whom Charles Atlas would kick sand.

[Bedford Forrest]

"Rev. Bagheera was known as Leroy T. Washington before his conversion to Islam and once lived in Albany, Georgia."

And, "Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves." [Per Reverend Bagheeera]

Say what you will, folks, Leroy is extremely comical for a goat-poker. Poke dem goats, Leroy, You Da Man!!!!

[SamAdams76]

I wonder if we should also boycott rap music because its lyrics often encourage violence and rape and refer to women as "bitches" and "hoes". You hear more hate in an average hour of rap songs than you do in a year of country & western songs.

[redhawk]

Rev. Bagheera also lamented the lack of black country music magicians.

I have to agree, there aren't very many black country magicians around. But what does this have to do with C&W music?

[Shermy]

LOL - you're right!

[Don Myers]

I suggest that parents do a boycott of the black rap/sex/violence music. Don't let your children buy this degenerative and lowest common denominator music.

[parsifal]

I already boycott rap music. (Except for K-7. They're darn good. Love 'Move it Like This'. ) parsy, who can't move it like that.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Mudboy Slim]

Yes, I've got a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old...(=^D!!

FReegards...MUD

[redhawk]

They had Honky Hank Williams blaring on the radio as they was chasing me. He was moanin'some kind of blues as I remember.

For all the years I've listen to Ol' Hank "Moan the Blues" I've never had the inclination to chase down a black man. An Ol' drunk white woman maybe, but never a black man.