Racist Song?

**BOBS DAD** · 07-05-2006, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Muddy4paws

Just want to say before I post the following im not racist and it offends anyone I'll delete my post..

KAWLIGA- Maybe they missheard her singing that word, I haven't heard the song but saying that word aloud can also sound like a certain "N" word, as I've said I haven't actually heard the song so it could be prounced differently.

I loved that sound as a kid. Doesn't sound like the "N" word at all. It is pronounced Caw-Lie-Jah! With an emphasis on LIE.

**Vela** · 07-05-2006, 11:25 PM

LOL Baked Alaska... but it has to be authentic, none of this knockoff stuff!

**Corinna** · 07-05-2006, 11:41 PM

Thanks Richard that was also one of my favorites too and now I have to be careful when I play it. Geessssh !!! I never claim to be PC either in fact I have a button that says" I'm not PC deal with it."

**DrKym** · 07-06-2006, 12:01 AM

applauds corrina! boy good thing I own our school with as little PC as I have...........................I don't think tenure would save me LOL

**jesse_3** · 07-06-2006, 02:14 AM

Well, I guess I am going to speak up a little bit here. I don't know if some of you really understand. No, personally, that would not effect me, but think of some of the things that are said about Native Americans.
Yes, there is a lot of racism, and one term used in there "red" would be very offensive. I can sort of understand why that would be a problem.

I went through a long journey this year learning about Native Americans, Jewish, and African Americans, and well, I now understand things a little better. I don't want to get in an argument, but give Native Americans a little slack. Their elders have been to Hell and back..Besides, you don't know what could be said to a certain person. Maybe the song triggered a memory. I have a Native American friend who could back me up with that statement too. So please, don't be so harsh. If a Native American were to come on and read this, what would they think?

Stephanie

**RICHARD** · 07-06-2006, 02:29 AM

Who remembers Little Black Sambo?

Is he back in vogue now?

A wonderful kid's story about a young black kid that melts some tigers into butter for his pancakes.

I think that it's still Un PC.....PETA will argue about killing Tigers for a short stack.

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I find that most stereotypes are based in some truth.

Look at Senor Speedy Gonzalez..
His hat, clothes and and huaraches are the style of long ago.

(Hey, wasn't it the Beach Boys that used the term huaraches in a surfing song? what does rhyme with huaraches?)

Being an American Mexican I have eated beans, rice and tortillas...

Beaner? Darn Right! Taco Bender? Yep!

I can't play the 'sorrow' game today. What ever injustices that happened long ago do not hurt me now. That was a cross for the people who came before me to bear.

I have to make the most of their pain and sacrifices to make my own history.

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Authentic Alaskans are nothing more than Russians who crossed the Bering when it was frozen over. Check it out!

**IRescue452** · 07-06-2006, 07:28 AM

Its not the song that really gets to me. Its the classic "indian" figure. The fact that they are made to be mascots and figures selling cigars with a big hat of feathers and an axe. It gives people the idea that they aren't real humans, like they are novelties. It also bothers me that indians and eskimos are the only human beings used in childrens' alphabet books, while the rest of the items are objects and animals. I probably wouldn't make her stop singing it, I'd probably have gone back to my desk an sat there all depressed thinking about it.

**Lady's Human** · 07-06-2006, 07:31 AM

So I should be upset with the NFL (Minnesota Vikings), Capitol One (using vikings as adverts), Hagar the Horrible, ad infinitum?

Damn, I've got a lot of talking to do with a lawyer.

**RICHARD** · 07-06-2006, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by IRescue452

Its not the song that really gets to me. Its the classic "indian" figure. The fact that they are made to be mascots and figures selling cigars with a big hat of feathers and an axe. It gives people the idea that they aren't real humans, like they are novelties. It also bothers me that indians and eskimos are the only human beings used in childrens' alphabet books, while the rest of the items are objects and animals. I probably wouldn't make her stop singing it, I'd probably have gone back to my desk an sat there all depressed thinking about it.

Let's change the "I" to idiot and the "E" to entomologist

and let's toss all the indians performing ceremonial dances, dressed up a Chief
Big Feather Polically Incorrect, into jail.

(Damn it will be good to strip the AMerinds of all their dignity,,,,You'd think that the firewater and reservations would have calmed everyone down.)

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when I read the story about LBS the only thing I could thinkabout is how good those pancakes with that tiger butter must have tasted..

And what a talent and smarts....he had to get them to melt,

Now I have to settle for Tiger Milk Bars......THERE AIN"T NO TIGER IN THEM!

Get rid of the Exxon Tiger, the Luck Charms leprachaun, the Froot Loops Toucan!

**RICHARD** · 07-06-2006, 06:40 PM

What about Frank Zappa?

Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...

And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Dont be a naughty eskimo
Save your money, dont go to the show

Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow

**Sus** · 07-06-2006, 05:28 PM

I agree on all the above!

I think it is rather far-fetched to name the lyrics racist, and I'm sure that it was never intended that way by the authors/songwriters! I conceive it is as a love story - along the lines of the story by H.C. Andersen: "The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep"/"The Steadfast Tin Soldier".

I think it is more offensive that the ... hm... "lady" in question would flaunt her bible during staffmeetings!