I was at work with my iPod on shuffle as usual when I am working on the weekend when a song that i didn't recognize came on. It was a track by the Meatmen, and it started with a nice racist rant about how the lead singer doesn't like people from the Middle East. The track I have found out now was called Camel Jockeys Suck, so that is off my iPod, but I first off wonder what s going on in that these guys think this is appropriate, and how many tracks on my iPod do I have that contain messages such as this.
The answer to the first question is that these guys are from the original punk wave and are probably used to be able to say all the offensive stuff they wanted. I guess they haven't adapted to society, or the United States is more tolerant of that kind of message.
The second question has me quite perplexed. I found a few rap songs that I took off like Ice Cube's Horny Little Devil, but there are others that are more border line such as Black Flag's White Minority, which they maintain is a statement about life in California, and not supposed to be racist, but there are some very border lines lyrics throughout the entire song. Then there are other songs such as The Vandals Shiite Punk which seems to make fun of extremists from the Middle East. I like both these songs, and ther eare others that I like that use homophobic slurs to saterize a subject, or occasionally just to call names which may be where the line needs to be drawn. One of the songs, I Just Want Some Skank, was played on my radio show the On-Slot. I didn't get any complaints, but i was embarassed when Kieth Morris state that he finally got laid so his parents won't think he is a "fag". It is done to make fun of the way people react to those that aren't making sex a prioiy in their lives, but maybe it is time for me to try to eliminate all prejudice, even in jest from my iPod.
WWJED What would Jaremy Ediger do? What do you think I should do.
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