Beer for My Horses
So reading my morning FoxNews.com I came across this article. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,400084,00.html Here is an excerpt.
“The song was a hit and the words ‘lynch’ and ‘racism’ has never come up until this moron wrote this blog,” he said, according to ContactMusic.
The country singer, 47, was on “The Colbert Report” last month to perform “Beer for My Horses,” the popular song that inspired a movie of the same name.
Huffington Post blogger Max Blumenthal called the song an “ode to lynching” and said that “Colbert’s studio audience clapped to the beat, blithely unaware that they were swaying to a racially tinged, explicitly pro-lynching anthem that calls for the vigilante-style hanging of car thieves and other assorted evildoers.”
Blumenthal cited the lyrics “Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son, A man had to answer for the wicked that he’d done, Take all the rope in Texas, Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys, Hang them high in the street,” as proof of its racial implications.
He said “during the days when Keith’s ‘Grandpappy’ stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy.”
But Keith defended the song, saying: “It’s about the old West and horses and sheriffs … and going and getting the bad guys. It’s not a racist thing or about lynching.”
So let us look at this, in the year 2008 I am very sure you can poll, ask, or talk to any educated white man or woman in this great country and ask them about slavery. I am sure that a rousing number of them will say that this was a dark part of American history. Oh crap, I said “dark” does that now make me a racist, I mean I did refer to word that has many meanings one of which is in reference to a color….
Anyways, why is it that black people are keeping racism alive? How many times have you heard educated white people bring up the topic?? You don’t as a whole the white populous of the United States of America would love to move on; but we can’t because people like this man, or Jackson, or Sharpton what to keep the spirit alive. You know I dare to say if you ask a white 4 year old, and a black 4 year old, neither one of them knows what racism is. They are just happy to be playing with another kid at the play ground. They don’t care what color there different skins are.
I mean really the Jews have already moved on and let go the small little war know as World War II, where there race was nearly destroyed, or even sooner the white America Soldiers that were in prison camps in Vietnam. Many of them still have the nightmares but don’t kick the hell out of a Vietnamese person walking in the streets.
Get over yourself, black, white, green, or red. Get off your cross, move on. I don’t owe you anything.
