Stop singing these racist minstrel songs to your children.

[Anonymous]

I have sung Oh Susanna and Jimmy Crack Corn with my children too but will reexamine them.

[Anonymous]

Okay, but by that logic we also have to boycott Mickey now because this article clearly states Mickey Mouse was inspired by blackface and minstrel shows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop lecturing people on what to do. It gets old. It if makes you feel better we only exposed our kids to rock, alternative and heavily metal.

Yes lets expose kids to the rap culture that teaches that women are hoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop lecturing people on what to do. It gets old. It if makes you feel better we only exposed our kids to rock, alternative and heavily metal.

Yes lets expose kids to the rap culture that teaches that women are hoes.

posters like 19:18 seem to think that arguing against exposure is racist:


Poster 1: It's really sad and scary how deep all of this goes into our country's culture. I'm ashamed I didn't notice it before...


Poster 2: I agree. Do your part by not listening to or buying any and all songs that use racist language. So many popular songs have the n word for instance. Don't enable those songs by listening to or paying for them.


Poster 3 at 19:18: It's gotta be scary watching the world change before your very eyes, knowing the time for racists like you is quickly coming to an end. I pity you.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White women problems

Why is this an insult or something to be belittled? I'm tired of hearing that white women are basically shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the original lyrics for Oh Susannah are quite different from the modern lyrics. That means we should never sing the modern version?

I don't understand.

Changing the lyrics doesn't change its origins in minstrelsy. It was an ugly form of entertainment, and all vestiges of it need to go. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it remains a pig.

Our ENTIRE culture is based on a legacy of racism.

[Anonymous]

I think this is a great article about racism in folk music.

However, this is the opposite to what I learned about the origins and changes in Mickey Mouse.

Stephen Jay Gould did a fascinating article about how Mickey's appearance changed to make him more childlike (not more black). His original appearance was that of a rodent and an adult. He was then progressively drawn to look like more and more like a child, with a large head big eyes and a fat stomach.

https://faculty.uca.edu/benw/biol4415/papers/Mickey.pdf

[Anonymous]

I guess that episode of that very New York, progressive show will never air again, where George outright says “Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care!”

[Anonymous]

I’m 44 and learned today that Shoo Fly was a racist song. I’m shocked. I thought it was about being loved. “I belong to somebody”

Take it away if it really offends you but it didn’t make me a racist.

[Anonymous]

What about music that degrades women? Gotta take that easy too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the original lyrics for Oh Susannah are quite different from the modern lyrics. That means we should never sing the modern version?

I don't understand.

Changing the lyrics doesn't change its origins in minstrelsy. It was an ugly form of entertainment, and all vestiges of it need to go. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it remains a pig.

Our ENTIRE culture is based on a legacy of racism.

And our country was built by enslaved people. The economy.

Our path to become a “global superpower” was built on millions of stolen lives.

[Anonymous]

I am black and yes, white women pointing out all these ridiculous songs and shows that no one in the black community cares about does take away from the issues that we are fighting so hard to change! All your doing is trying to diminish our message and make more people upset. Please be silent and listen.
White women have always been the ones telling me what we should be offended by. I’ve had friends text me “wow I didn’t know this was racist” and it’s great you are educating yourself but please stop telling us what we should find offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the original lyrics for Oh Susannah are quite different from the modern lyrics. That means we should never sing the modern version?

I don't understand.

Changing the lyrics doesn't change its origins in minstrelsy. It was an ugly form of entertainment, and all vestiges of it need to go. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it remains a pig.

Our ENTIRE culture is based on a legacy of racism.

And our country was built by enslaved people. The economy.

Our path to become a “global superpower” was built on millions of stolen lives.

This! the entire America is the result of the conquest, so give the land back to the native american!

[Anonymous]

As Sam Wheat says to Oda Mae, "What a crock of shit!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t get all frothed up about songs that were sanitized 100 years ago and have been loved by many generations of children since then. If they hadn’t been sanitized, sure.

They haven’t been sanitized. The racist imagery is still there.

About the same as sexual imagery is still there in Little Red Riding Hood? Gory death in Ring around the Rosie?

Again, can’t get worked up about it. There is nothing racist or sexual about these songs and stories that little kids could possibly pick up on.

Darlin Clementine, though- there’s an explicit tale of child neglect.

They don’t pick up that the songs are racist or sexist, but the messages are inculcated anyway.