11 Popular Songs You Didn’t Realize Are Actually Racist

Reader's Digest ^ | 6/21/23 | Jeremy Helligar

[circlecity]

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

[Bonemaker]

“...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...”

[PAR35]

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

[AAABEST]

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

[ealgeone]

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

[dfwgator]

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]

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[DoodleBob]

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…

[right way right]

Screw this race baiting author.

[ConservativeInPA]

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

[x]

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.

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[TomGuy]

“Black Betty” didn’t make the list?

[Larry Lucido]

[blackdog]

“Slipping into Darkness” -By, War.

[HandyDandy]

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

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Disambiguator]

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

[DIRTYSECRET]

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.

[Responsibility2nd]

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.