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And Now For Something Completely Different...
« on: May 18, 2014, 12:43:30 AM »
...a real, honest-to-goodness example of racism!

This is of note because just about everything that you come across these days that the victim industry claims to be racist turns out to be bogus.

Now, granted, this is rather petty and silly but it is undeniably racist in its origins...in its present usage, well, not so much. But it's a historical curiosity nonetheless.

I'm not going to spoil the surprise so you will have to click on the link to have a bit of useless trivia to whip out at your next get-together.
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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2014, 02:16:08 AM »
I don't give a crap.  Everything's racist.  Me breathing, as a White woman, is racist.  So what?

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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2014, 09:18:10 AM »
Sweet another bit of music to play as the cities burn.

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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2014, 06:49:00 PM »
I don't give a crap.  Everything's racist.  Me breathing, as a White woman, is racist.  So what?

Put me in the "having trouble finding concern" column.

Leave it to our tax dollars (NPR) to find it.
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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2014, 07:06:05 PM »
Well, the thing here is to look at what NPR focused on: They looked back to the origin of a tune that was written during the height of the KKK days...1916. If they weren't so intent on picking the racism scab they could have instead highlighted just how far we have come as a country. The silliness of this story just knows no bounds. For instance, the original music was published by Columbia Records...why not shove a microphone in the face of some Columbia execs and demand answers? Sure, anyone and everyone associated with that situation is long since dead but when has that ever made a difference to the race hustlers of the victim industry? Yup, never.
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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2014, 07:14:37 PM »
Not to mention that the tune itself is much older than the 1916 song. It's one of those tunes that goes back to Britain and has since had many different lyrics adapted to it. So why the insistence that the ice cream music is the racist song, rather than one of the earlier incarnations of that tune? Because agenda, obviously.
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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2014, 09:18:31 PM »
Did Appalachian-Americans just get thrown under the bus?! That's raaaaaaaaciss!
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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2014, 09:26:38 PM »
Are we certain that jay-z's grand pappy didn't write that? (Does jay-z know who his grand pappy was?!)

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Re: And Now For Something Completely Different...
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2014, 06:50:04 AM »
He don't know who his daddy was, forget grandpappy! 
We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.