Posted on 07/13/2002 8:00:56 PM PDT by 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)
Holy cow...the constantly self-aggrandizing Richard IS greatly responsible for rock and roll as we knew it (along with Chuck Berry, rock's first superstar guitarist), and never lets us forget it. But I have NEVER heard him lay claim to being one of the progenitors of country music. Country music was among the influences that produced his revolutionary sound.
but the only country music performer of color was Charlie Pride."
So what the heck do you want? Some sort of government program to help create the black Garth Brooks? Has this moron even considered how few black people buy country music, much less play it?
As a black man, it shocks and disappoints me how ignorant many black "leaders" are.
ROTFLMAO!
Go for it!! I have been boycotting 'RAP' since it hit the airwaves.
It also disappoints me how some black people are so sensitive to idiocy of other black people, they will even believe parodies until they read between the lines. :)
Well let's see. Arnold Ziffle was actually an FBI informant for Hoover. Oliver Douglas went broke at farming and started suing local business owners like Haney & Drucker. Seems Oliver got the FTC and UL after Haney for faulty products and Drucker was steaming open everyones mail. Sarah the switchboard operator was sued for a monopoly on the phone company and it was split and sold to Hank Kimble and Ralph Monroe Kimble Dawson. Oliver handled the Kimble divorce as well. Lisa ran off with Newt Killey after the locust ate all the valleys crops. Modernization killed Hooterville :>} OH BTW Oliver had a very profitable moonshine business and used the farm for a write off.
Ever since I heard Asleep at the Wheel's 2 CD tribute to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, I've been wanting to pick up some original Bob Wills music. I must admit I wasn't aware of his influence and talent before that. What do you recommend?
...'cus they don't look at the keywords sidebar...or maybe 'cus it's just a little too close to the real thing? Whoever wrote this has the scam pegged.
I'll bet the good deacon will be washing his hands of Bagheera after Parsy's breaking news. LOL
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