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BBC's radiomaker David Lowe was fired after playing a 82 year old recording of the song "The sun has got it's hat on." [youtubehd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIpkz6DOi8[/youtubehd]

Apparently a listener was offended by the phrase "he's been tanning [n****rs] out in Timbuktu".

See also: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1082225 ... -word.html

Strangely enough, you can hear rap music on the radio every single day, in which the N-word is used frequently. Take for instance this one: Nigga Witta Gun by Dr. Dre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9Oq3ISjfs). I counted eight [n****rs] in the first 20 seconds!

Oh for God's sake! Mark Twain uses the word too. ban his works? Washington had slaves. Stike his name?

PC is PC - historical revision is weak and ignorant.

He should have played "Bake Dat Chicken Pie"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIopyLEIbPM

Strangely enough, you can hear rap music on the radio every single day, in which the N-word is used frequently. Take for instance this one: Nigga Witta Gun by Dr. Dre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9Oq3ISjfs). I counted eight [n****rs] in the first 20 seconds!


It's perfectly okay to say the awful N-word if you're the right color; otherwise you are a racist.

Now excuse me, while I go play some Billy Golden and some George W. Johnson, and try to forget political correctness for a little while.

Nat wrote:Oh for God's sake! Mark Twain uses the word too. ban his works? Washington had slaves. Stike his name?

PC is PC - historical revision is weak and ignorant.

I would agree. But in this day and age, if your career matters, you better sharpen your needle before you'd think about playing a record like that over BBC.

The BBC have now admitted that they could have handled the situation better, and have offered the DJ his job back. Will he take it? I wouldn't.

Just another example of what in the UK is sometimes referred to as "political correctness gone mad".

I played both videos for comparison. I could only take 10 seconds of the rap-crap. I don't want to get political, but I am tired of these double-standards. Now, I going to play my politically incorrect records before the though-police comes and confiscates my collection. By the way, Im on the hunt for that 1932 record.
Harvey Kravitz

epigramophone wrote:The BBC have now admitted that they could have handled the situation better, and have offered the DJ his job back. Will he take it? I wouldn't.

He turned them down.

I tell people that in those days it was the common thing to use t "N" word and such.I'm thinking of the original verse of "Old Man River" and the chorus of "Misssissippi Mud".It was a DIFFERENT world!edisonplayer

edisonplayer wrote:I tell people that in those days it was the common thing to use t "N" word and such.I'm thinking of the original verse of "Old Man River" and the chorus of "Misssissippi Mud".It was a DIFFERENT world!edisonplayer

Yes, it was a different world, even within our own living memory. Besides entertainment, old records serve as time capsules that provide documentary evidence of social conventions of the day. Some politically-correct historical revisionists would sweep those inconvenient memories under the rug if they could. I guess I'll stop now before this thread degenerates into politics.