[78-L] Warning..offensive article, mainly because it's absolute

[78-L Mail List]

Some ice cream trucks must have played music in the 50s, since Stan Freberg 
wrote an entire story for MAD (Uninterrupted Melody) which he recycled a year 
later on his radio series.

dlennick

On 5/21/2014 12:45 AM, 78-L Mail List (unsigned) wrote:
>
> There has been some discussion here about racism as
> pertaining to some records produced around 1920. At
> that time the American attitude toward non white people,
> was not good, and is hurting us till this day. First
> I would like to say we have music produced today that is
> racist and sexist, for one, some rap. We have a racist
> in the white house. Or at least him and his wife were when
> in collage. Some of his friends are today. Any racism is
> detrimental to our society . The kind of in crowd people that
> think racism is OK today as long as it is directed toward
> the non black race are the type of people that at the turn
> of the century promoted race records and music. I however
> don’t think music should be banned because we dislike the
> content. I personally don’t listen to racist music, I find it
> boring.  As far as ice-cream trucks, I remember in the 1950’s
> they had bells, and did not play music. If they did play music,
> it must have been of no consequence because I don’t
> remember it.
>