Is Fault of Lou Reed, Not Linsday Lohan
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Boy is watching television, is relaxing thing for him to do after chores, I will never have to pay for babysitter again. He hear American pop song he like on Gatorade commercial, has big African-American basketball star walking through streets like pied piper. I recognize music, is very old song from my childhood, but then boy, he go on the computer to look for commercial on the YouTube. He find it is by band, A Cereal Called Quest but that part of song in commercial is what you call a sample; another American invention were you take part of something that doesn't belong to you and call it your own, like you do with Palestine, but with song.
So we find original song, "Take a Walk On The Wild Side" by this Lou Reed. We listen to song, very racist, refer to black people as "colored" very many times. He say "the colored girls go, 'do do do do, do do do, do do do'" like it is some sort of minstrel show, they do this for his pleasure, he says “go” and they say “do do do do do”, very degrading. I thought this sort of behavior stop here after civil rights war. Why you play reminder of this every day? I see song is 35 years old, is this best you can do in all this time, America?
We very confused because we just see on E! Channel before commercial that young Linsday Lohan in big trouble for using word "colored' to describe Barack Obama. If this word is bad, why does African-American man like Talib Kweli use racist song that refer to African-American people as colored for his sample? Like giving his approval, no? Why does big Chicago radio station like Q101 play old Lou Reed song over and over? Young children like Lindsay Lohan hear song and they think it's OK to say "colored" for the African-American people, just like Mr. Reed. It is the same for black radio stations (strange how your radio still segregated, no?) that play A Cereal Called Quest song. I know the hip hop people take these words and recycle them to terms of endearment, but how is Linsday Lohan and other people to know the white ones don't use these words?
I search more, many times Lou Reed song used in commercials, celebrating “colored”, so how poor lesbian Miss Lohan know this bad word? On TV all the time, how can it be bad word, America? This song is like the Bugs Bunny cartoon we see in Morocco where black man has bone through his nose and swollen lips. Should be taken off the air, is part of America's past. You give black man right to vote, nice seat on bus, even be president now, but still play racist songs all the time. It seems national broadcasting conglomerate, Gatorade, and Quest cereal are conspiring to keep the colored term alive.
I ask people in neighborhood, get even more confusing, people in neighborhood tell us African-American means people of color, how is this different from colored people? Seem like same words, but we are all color people, good name for everyone. Just like television, we throw out black and white set and now see everyone is different color.
Miss Lohan, I like to see you do film with Megan Fox, this would send your image to rehab as well as make you much money at box office. Everyone will use extra butter on their popcorn to see this. As for Mr. Reed, please put an end to showing how much bigotry your generation show toward African-America. You are very old, bad for young people. It would be nice thing for you to re-record this song before you die, or maybe better to bury with you.
