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Last summer, [[the Rolling Stones]] outraged many people with their now-famous remark about the all-night sexual proclivities of "black girls." At least the stereotype in "Some Girls" was tempered a bit by the next, less-quoted line, in which Mick Jagger lamented his own inability to rise to the occasion. And "Some Girls" was more sexist than racist, another chapter in the same book. | Last summer, [[the Rolling Stones]] outraged many people with their now-famous remark about the all-night sexual proclivities of "black girls." At least the stereotype in "Some Girls" was tempered a bit by the next, less-quoted line, in which Mick Jagger lamented his own inability to rise to the occasion. And "Some Girls" was more sexist than racist, another chapter in the same book. | ||
But what were we to make of punk dean [[Lou Reed]]'s mean-spirited ditty, "I Want To Be Black," from his last live album? Reed defended his casual references to "niggers," Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but saying he was actually satirizing " - up Jewish college students" who want to be hiply black. Great consolation; when somebody in the audience called him on his "dirty Jew jokes," he cursed them out. "I never said I was tasteful," Reed continued. | But what were we to make of punk dean [[Lou Reed]]'s mean-spirited ditty, "I Want To Be Black," from his last live album? Reed defended his casual references to "niggers," Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but saying he was actually satirizing " - up Jewish college students" who want to be hiply black. Great consolation; when somebody in the audience called him on his "dirty Jew jokes," he cursed them out. | ||
"I never said I was tasteful," Reed continued. | |||
Writing in the current issue of the Village Voice, critic [[Lester Bangs]] discussed rock's intentional and unintentional racism. Bangs, who cares about New Wave music, is angered that Nico, the former icy lead singer with Reed's legendary Velvet Underground, sang "Deutschland uber Allies" at a New York punk club and then explained her departure from her former record company to New Wave Rock magazine thusly: "I said to some interviewer that I didn't like Negroes.... They took it personally... although it's a whole different race. I mean Bob Marley doesn't resemble a Negro does he? ... I don't like the features. They're so much like animals ... It's cannibals, no?" | Writing in the current issue of the Village Voice, critic [[Lester Bangs]] discussed rock's intentional and unintentional racism. Bangs, who cares about New Wave music, is angered that Nico, the former icy lead singer with Reed's legendary Velvet Underground, sang "Deutschland uber Allies" at a New York punk club and then explained her departure from her former record company to New Wave Rock magazine thusly: "I said to some interviewer that I didn't like Negroes.... They took it personally... although it's a whole different race. I mean Bob Marley doesn't resemble a Negro does he? ... I don't like the features. They're so much like animals ... It's cannibals, no?" |
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