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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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
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To: DallasBiff

Actually “brown sugar” refers to brown heroin. I thought everybody knew this.


61 posted on 07/11/2023 7:06:47 PM PDT by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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To: A_perfect_lady

That song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall. No surprise this commie sob hates it.


62 posted on 07/11/2023 7:07:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t care and will continue to listen to all them and sing along.


63 posted on 07/11/2023 7:09:20 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: DallasBiff

The Left has taken over Reader’s Digest, I see. Amazing how few conservatives with the means to do so take over these publications. The culture is important.


64 posted on 07/11/2023 7:16:34 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Dr. Sivana

Nope. Popular myth.
https://dnaconsultants.com/cher-the-half-breed/


65 posted on 07/11/2023 7:28:10 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: DallasBiff

ZZ Top’s ‘Mexican Blackbird’ didn’t make the cut?


66 posted on 07/11/2023 7:29:04 PM PDT by hollywood (A FearBro/FluBro Mutt)
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To: Larry Lucido

How about “I am just a dirty white boy?”


67 posted on 07/11/2023 7:36:14 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: mfish13
The Bird by The Time.

”White folks, you're much too tight. You gotta shake your head like the black folks. You might get some tonight. ”

68 posted on 07/11/2023 7:46:08 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: gunsmithkat

I learned what the song “One is the Loneliest Number” by 3 Dog Night.

Hint- It is the last hit you have on the table

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE


69 posted on 07/11/2023 7:47:52 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: DallasBiff
“Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones

The 1991 hit celebrating the fall of communism dismissed the ongoing Black struggle at the time: “A woman on the radio talked about revolution when it’s already passed her by” and “I saw the decade in, when it seemed the world could change at the blink of an eye/ And if anything then there’s your sign of the times.”

Huh?

70 posted on 07/11/2023 7:48:17 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: hollywood

“Her mama was Mez’can
And her daddy was the ace of spades.”


71 posted on 07/11/2023 7:52:21 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: gunsmithkat

Any idea on this one from Grand Funk Railroad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_t59To7Snk


72 posted on 07/11/2023 8:04:08 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: dangus

What no Bertha Butt?


73 posted on 07/11/2023 8:06:48 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: DallasBiff

the RD is still a thing???

i grew up on it


74 posted on 07/11/2023 8:08:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Here is a favorite from the Coasters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfRITVdz4k


75 posted on 07/11/2023 8:11:18 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: dfwgator
Cher is Armenian.

Part Armenian, part Cherokee, part other things.
76 posted on 07/11/2023 8:38:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: sunny bonobo
If your link is correct, someone should update her Wikipedia page.

Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), was a former model and retired actress who claimed Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher
77 posted on 07/11/2023 8:40:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana
Part Armenian, part Cherokee, part other things.

At times she had a little Italian in her.
78 posted on 07/11/2023 8:44:39 PM PDT by jy8z (Everything you think, do and say is from the pill you took today.)
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To: DallasBiff

I would like to propose a few suggestions for consideration of some older, historical songs being added to possible future versions of this Reader's Digest list.   (No particular reason -- just something to do, involving some songs about some colorful people, which the wacky authors here also might have a problem with, if they listen to them.)

      "Yellow Man" - Randy Newman

      "Running Bear" - Johnny Preston

      "A Whiter Shade of Pale" - Procol Harum

      "Old Folks At Home" (Stephen Foster) - Robert Shaw Chorale

      Christmas Song - Gospel Quartet   (I know it's July, but this quartet is demonstrating such racial harmony and togetherness here, that I thought it might be worthwhile to post it on this thread.)

79 posted on 07/11/2023 8:45:09 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Songcraft

Randy Newman - Rednecks


80 posted on 07/11/2023 8:47:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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