The 10 Most Racist Moments from a Song About Ending Racism
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Or, if you'd like a more detailed rundown of the various hate crimes committed in this song, keep reading. Here are the 10 most racist moments from Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's song about ending racism.
10. Every Lynyrd Skynyrd Fan Loves the Confederate FlagThere are about 30 seconds of this song that aren't filled with unintentionally racist nonsense, and those would be the first 30 seconds of the song, before anyone actually starts singing. Once that happens, though, the floodgates burst wide cheap furla handbags open, and the first thing that comes wholesale new era hats rushing out is this line:
To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand
When I put on that T shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I'm a Skynyrd fan
If you're not following, and you definitely are not, what he's implying is that some punk kid working at Starbucks mistook his Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt that just happened to have a Confederate flag on it as some kind of endorsement of the flag itself.
First of all, no one working at Starbucks "understands" Lynyrd Skynyrd. If they do, they're too old to be working at Starbucks. Second, wearing a Skynyrd shirt with the Confederate flag on it is totally an endorsement of the flag. The only way the "It's just a Skynyrd shirt" defense works wholesale new era hats is if there are no Lynyrd Skynyrd shirts available that don't feature a Confederate flag. That's not the case, though. The cheap ray bans Confederate flag isn't part of the official Skynyrd logo. They do have T shirts that don't feature that flag, and I can vouch for that fact because I own one.
In fact, when I searched Getty Images for Lynyrd Skynyrd pictures to use in this column, I was presented with 10 pages of results. After scanning snapback hats through countless images of the band in all sorts of.
Geoff Burke/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images. the only Confederate flag I found. was on that dipshit. That's a shot of a male model on the catwalk at a fashion show in 2006. You will definitely see the two together from time to time. (Update: No you won't. The band very publicly denounced the Confederate flag back in September. Thanks for the tip, commenters!) To imply that you can't support one without supporting the other, though, is ridiculous.
9. It's Unclear Why the Confederate Flag Is a Problem
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It takes exactly one more sentence for Brad Paisley to take the "implying that the Confederate flag is merely a band logo" situation from terrible to absurd. Check out this line (with my own added emphasis):
The red flag on my chest somehow is like the elephant in the corner of the South
And I just walked him right in the room
Just a proud rebel son with an ol' can of worms
Yes, Brad Paisley, somehow the flag that represented the side of the Civil War that fought for slavery has become a touchy subject. Here's hoping science can piece together that mystery for us someday. In the meantime, how about you solve the mystery of who in the fuck calls the Confederate flag the "red flag"?
If Brad Paisley had a tenth of the courage he thinks releasing this garbage makes it seem like he has, the line there would have been "the rebel flag on my chest." That's what a real racist would call it, but Brad Paisley has to cop out and throw in the "rebel" part a few lines later.