Earlyer I put a post on here that were lyrics to a song by randy newman called rednecks It made me sound racist so i wanted to explan the lyrics and i am in now way racist .So Here is what the song is about Rednecks is sung from the perspective of a Southern redneck. In it he expresses his dismay at the way that the North looks down upon The South. In particular the narrator describes his ire at watching a smart-ass, New York Jewmock Lester Maddox on a television program. (This is an allusion to Maddoxs 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show whose eponymous host is actually a gentile.) In response to his frustration at the television show, the narrator goes on to list, sarcastically, a litany of negative qualities that Southerners are reputed to have. He focuses especially on institutionalized racism, or, as the narrator puts it: keeping the niggers down. As the song ends, the narrator turns the knife on judgmental northerners, calling them out as hypocrites.[3] He achieves this by singing that the North has set the nigger free and then sings African-Americans are only free to be put in a cage, and then lists a number of black ghettos in northern cities (i.e. Roxbury in Boston, East St. Louis and Harlem in New York City) The songs final lyric is: They [the Northerners] gatherin em up, from miles around/Keeping the niggers down. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis said Newman had peeled back the curtain on... bigots and hypocrites with this song.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:48:45 +0000