Recently, I've been having a discussion on reparations, and at the beginning of the discussion, Selaphiel accused me of holding positions which could have been drawn straight from the songs of Johnny Rebel.
I don't believe I'd heard of the man before this. So, my interest piqued by Selaphiel's accusations, I decided to do my own research, and I found a man singing songs (very catchy songs, note, with very nice tunes, let me note) which...in effect...at least to some extent, simply echoed things that I'd often heard myself.
Consider, e.g., his song "That's the way a [n-word] goes." It's one of my favorite songs of his. [Unfortunately, he claimed in an interview, he didn't actually write it. Someone else wrote it, and he sang and recorded it.]
But the basic little rhyme isn't original. I'd basically already heard it before.
Johnny Rebel claims that he isn't a racist. He would, of course, never permit his daughter to marry a black person, and he doesn't like black people at all, and especially not their attitudes. Nonetheless, he's not a racist.
None of you, I am sure, will think this anything more than sheer sophistry, a mere confusion of words.
But I basically understand and agree with him in this. The interesting thing about Johnny Rebel is that he himself will tell you: his songs aren't really all that original. He basically just wrote what pretty much everyone else of his time was thinking and talking about, and even though he wrote it in the 60's, it all strikes us as being of modern relevance.
His songs simply tapped into the "spirit of the times" of his day where he lived. And to a large extent, they still do.
What he sings, minus the stuff about the KKK, is still part of the current Southern attitude, at least, to some extent (primarily among white people 40 years of age and older).
Consider the songs "Affirmative action," "federal aid" and "Here comes Jesse."
If you didn't know it was written by a "racist," and if you took out the n-word, you'd assume that it was written by someone on Fox News.
"I'm not a racist," said Johnny Rebel (who, I am proud to say, is from my state!). "It's the attitude I don't like."
And you'll really see this in his song "It's the attitude, stupid."
One of my convictions about the liberals is that their doctrines aren't based on reason. It's all based on brain-washing. "Haven't you died out yet?" "Your kind still exists?" It's a common liberal refrain. Why? Because they don't base themselves on reason; the proliferation of liberal ideology proceeds by means of brain-washing (thus the reason why liberals insist on their version of sex-education, science, etc. in schools).
If you listen to Johnny Rebel's songs, not much has changed from the 60s. The reasons to be a "racist," to yearn for segregation, to oppose being forced into society with blacks...it's still there. If anything, it's worse now. At least blacks in the 60s "knew their place" (except, of course, for all of those rabble-rousers). Nowadays?
Well.
If you've grown up in the South, you understand what I mean. I had to go to public school with them. :nono:
If you grew up in the North, then you don't really have a dog in the fight. Black people don't like cold weather. If you want to have an opinion about racism, then how about we send these southern ghetto blacks your way?
You can deal with them. "Move them...north!"
I don't believe I'd heard of the man before this. So, my interest piqued by Selaphiel's accusations, I decided to do my own research, and I found a man singing songs (very catchy songs, note, with very nice tunes, let me note) which...in effect...at least to some extent, simply echoed things that I'd often heard myself.
Consider, e.g., his song "That's the way a [n-word] goes." It's one of my favorite songs of his. [Unfortunately, he claimed in an interview, he didn't actually write it. Someone else wrote it, and he sang and recorded it.]
But the basic little rhyme isn't original. I'd basically already heard it before.
Johnny Rebel claims that he isn't a racist. He would, of course, never permit his daughter to marry a black person, and he doesn't like black people at all, and especially not their attitudes. Nonetheless, he's not a racist.
None of you, I am sure, will think this anything more than sheer sophistry, a mere confusion of words.
But I basically understand and agree with him in this. The interesting thing about Johnny Rebel is that he himself will tell you: his songs aren't really all that original. He basically just wrote what pretty much everyone else of his time was thinking and talking about, and even though he wrote it in the 60's, it all strikes us as being of modern relevance.
His songs simply tapped into the "spirit of the times" of his day where he lived. And to a large extent, they still do.
What he sings, minus the stuff about the KKK, is still part of the current Southern attitude, at least, to some extent (primarily among white people 40 years of age and older).
Consider the songs "Affirmative action," "federal aid" and "Here comes Jesse."
If you didn't know it was written by a "racist," and if you took out the n-word, you'd assume that it was written by someone on Fox News.
"I'm not a racist," said Johnny Rebel (who, I am proud to say, is from my state!). "It's the attitude I don't like."
And you'll really see this in his song "It's the attitude, stupid."
One of my convictions about the liberals is that their doctrines aren't based on reason. It's all based on brain-washing. "Haven't you died out yet?" "Your kind still exists?" It's a common liberal refrain. Why? Because they don't base themselves on reason; the proliferation of liberal ideology proceeds by means of brain-washing (thus the reason why liberals insist on their version of sex-education, science, etc. in schools).
If you listen to Johnny Rebel's songs, not much has changed from the 60s. The reasons to be a "racist," to yearn for segregation, to oppose being forced into society with blacks...it's still there. If anything, it's worse now. At least blacks in the 60s "knew their place" (except, of course, for all of those rabble-rousers). Nowadays?
Well.
If you've grown up in the South, you understand what I mean. I had to go to public school with them. :nono:
If you grew up in the North, then you don't really have a dog in the fight. Black people don't like cold weather. If you want to have an opinion about racism, then how about we send these southern ghetto blacks your way?
You can deal with them. "Move them...north!"
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