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re: Chicago Cop (Bama Fan) is disciplined for playing Sweet Home Alabama
Posted on 12/13/14 at 8:30 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Posted on 12/13/14 at 8:30 pm to diddydirtyAubie
this is fricking weak... granted i live in birthplace of skynyrd and my dad is probably 2 miles from brickyard road, but wtf. if the original members weren't dug and reburried after vandalism a few years, i would go to the op mall and witness them rolling over in person.
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Posted on 12/13/14 at 8:35 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Dude was obviously trolling the protesters. he should have played some NWA. Fight the Power. Fight da power dat be!
Posted on 12/13/14 at 8:36 pm to blue_morrison
Its racist because it mentions a southern state and is by default deemed racist
Posted on 12/13/14 at 8:53 pm to tide06
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That said, why was this dumbass playing it during a protest? I hate our fanbase sometimes.
This.
Even tho the song is actually anti Governor Wallace, people believe it is pro Wallace. In fact, I believe most people who like the song believe it is pro-segregationist and that's WHY they like it. I have no doubt that this cop is a similar kind of stupid, and that's WHY he played it.
As a private citizen, he should be able to wear a KKK outfit and antagonize protestors if he so chooses. But he's a fricking cop, and as a cop you can't do that shite. His arse should be fired, post haste.
This post was edited on 12/13/14 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:02 pm to tide06
The list would fit on a notecard
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:07 pm to imjustafatkid
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is racially offensive?
Yes.
It's a song sung by rednecks defending a Southern state from the attack of a condescending Canadian.
Much better to blast Randy Newman's song "Rednecks" from your car.
Tone deaf, humorless people LOVE that song.
Especially the bit about college boys from LSU.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:08 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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It could have been about Neil Young's song about about Alabama though.
Neil Youngs song was "Southern Man" and Skynyrd took the piss out of Young with the line "Neil Young will remember...a southern man dont need him round anyhow".
And I liked NY when he was with CSNY. After that, not so much. His voice is very whiney.
This post was edited on 12/13/14 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:10 pm to Masterag
No, I think most people who like the song like it because it's a good song.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:10 pm to guschamp84
frick, an alter already with Guschamp in it.
I take it your were some version of Chizik in a previous life.
I take it your were some version of Chizik in a previous life.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:12 pm to diddydirtyAubie
I see nothing wrong with a peace officer being disciplined for doing something that can provoke people, dumb reason or not. Cops shouldn't be blasting music, regardless of the situation. Do that shite in your own time, in your own vehiicle.
To the poster that said he should be fired, you're as dumb as he is.
To the poster that said he should be fired, you're as dumb as he is.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:16 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Isn't Sweet Home Alabama anti-racism?
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:17 pm to AUbagman
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I see nothing wrong with a peace officer being disciplined for doing something that can provoke people, dumb reason or not. Cops shouldn't be blasting music, regardless of the situation. Do that shite in your own time, in your own vehiicle.
There was no good reason to play it in Chicago.
Blues Brothers soundtrack would be better choice.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:24 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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“Some of the lyrics in themselves aren’t racist … but I know it’s also been co-opted by groups, maybe bigoted groups, as an anthem of Southern pride and those Confederate-type values,” said Michael, 30. “That’s what was so jarring to me. To hear that playing from a police car at the end of a protest against police brutality and the murder of African-Americans, it was just jarring.”
Some people heard something and called it offensive, and we just can't have that around here.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 9:59 pm to Mohican
Seriously, there are people being very obtuse up in this thread. And some have mentioned, this is all about context. The song is not overly offensive in itself. But when played in that manner at that location at that time, then what the hell are people supposed to think? Jesus, the guy is a dumbass if he didn't think African Americans would hear a song glorifying a "southern man" and state that had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and not think the worst. Granted he is a Bama fan, so he may just be THAT tone deaf.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:13 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Shitcongo
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:30 pm to LC412000
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actually I believe in the song they boo the governor?
yeap, the governor line is meant to be sarcastic. Of course everything has to mean exactly what it says these days. Unless you follow it with an eye rolling emoticon.
This post was edited on 12/13/14 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:41 pm to East Coast Band
Im new here. Does every low post count user automatically get thought of as an alter?
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:48 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Alabama won't play black QBs
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:54 pm to guschamp84
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Im new here. Does every low post count user automatically get thought of as an alter?
You're the first.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 10:55 pm to diddydirtyAubie
"Sweet Home Alabama" is not racially offensive. Wtf?
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