Racist Song?

[lizbud]

[QUOTE=Sus

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

Lots of love,
Sus and Bella[/QUOTE]


Definately. I would just consider the source.

[RICHARD]

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]

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

[finn's mom]

If we are forced to acknowledge them by such names how are we supposed to see past their colour. they are forcing us to recognize it.


A little humour though .... While at our cottage up in Northern Canada, we frequently pass a restaurant called.... The Wop and Frog restaurant. LOL It's owned by an Italian and a French guy LOL I thought it was kinda cute. And the little logo guy is a frog with a big black mustache and a chefs hat lol

I totally agree with you. I read something that talked about how America is becoming, and, one thing that stuck with me is that America used to be called "the melting pot", but, now, it's more of a tossed salad. It's becoming more about pointing out everyone's differences than concentrating on the similarities. I think it's important to keep your individuality, but, first and foremost, we are all human.

I think that's awesome! The restaurant! That's funny! And, I don't care what people call me, either. You could even call me a honky if you wanted. I have never been able to refer to anyone as **** American. Maybe except Native American, just to differentiate between "indians" from North America and Indians from India. But, I have never had any of my black friends (and where I grew up, that's all I had) say they minded if I called them black instead of African American. My friend Lovette actually laughed and said, "heck, none of my family is from africa."

[kuhio98]

...But, I have never had any of my black friends (and where I grew up, that's all I had) say they minded if I called them black instead of African American. My friend Lovette actually laughed and said, "heck, none of my family is from africa."

I saw Whoopie Goldberg on a show once. I loved what she said. I won't be able to quote her exactly, but she said something liked ~ Don't call me African American. I don't want anything to come between me and being an American.
I few years ago there was something on the news about Tiger Woods asking him how he wanted to be referred to. Was he African American? A Thailand American? An African-Thailand American? He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

[IRescue452]

I'm rarely pc, everybody is an American, so I don't have to worry about terms of correctness, if only the rest of the country would get that through their skull. I wanted to be an entomologist for a long time. I never drink and neither does my family, but you know if I had the money I'd move back on the reservation in a heartbeat. There just aren't any jobs to be had there. We stick out like sore thumbs here in Dutchland. Whenever I hear people trying to come up with pc terms I am so amused. People are so scared to offend others. I just wish they'd wise up about certain things, like black people not coming from Africa, they are Americans. I always imagine the white man coming to America years ago, thinking they were in India and calling the natives "Indians". Now, centuries later, they still haven't figured out we aren't Indians. You hicks are so stupid. How's that for pc.

[BOBS DAD]

I saw Whoopie Goldberg on a show once. I loved what she said. I won't be able to quote her exactly, but she said something liked ~ Don't call me African American. I don't want anything to come between me and being an American.
I few years ago there was something on the news about Tiger Woods asking him how he wanted to be referred to. Was he African American? A Thailand American? An African-Thailand American? He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

My parent's liked to say that we were "Croatian Americans) and I guess that makes sense since they grew up speaking Croatian first and foremost and only English in Public and School. BUT that was then and This is NOW. My kids are told they are AMERICAN, just like all of their friends. Just like Whoopie, Tiger, JFK, George Bush, Michael Jordan or George Lopez! People of my Ethnic background around my parts are sometimes referred to as "MillHunkies". Not so much anymore since most of the Steel Mills have shut down. Although some found it offensive, I always thought it kind of funny and never really bothered by it!!!

[finn's mom]

He responded something that was full of hyphens because his Mom's genetic background was mixed of several ethnic groups and so was his father's. I found myself wishing that he had just said, "I am an American".

I kinda like that he did that way, but, I didn't hear his tone. If **I'd** said it, it would have been with a bit of a sarcastic tone, like you'd have to call me Cherokee-Irish-German-French American. But, yeah, I see your point. I still would like to have actually heard him say that.