I've posted this song before, but it bears repeating. Yet again. Special AKA's "Racist Friend". The gist of the lyrics is advising the listener to cut off relationships with anyone they know who is a racist. It seems simple. That's because I don't have any racist friends. Not anymore. They've been let go over the years as soon as their their beliefs became apparent. It's crazy now that I think about it. This song was released in 1984, and I remember at the time hearing the lyrics "If you have a racist friend, now is the time for your friendship to end" and thinking at the time "Now is the time? How about years ago?!"
You may think it extreme, to dismiss a friendship or relation because of their views. It is not. De-friending a racist is necessary. As my sister pointed out on Facebook recently, not being a racist is not enough. If you really are against racism. you must fight racism. You must be anti-racist. You must remove the toxic crap from your relationships and in doing so, from the world. That easy. Racists are dead to me.
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The reasons racists are still flourishing is because those in a position to shame them will not do so because they typically have wealth which the position-dwellers do not want to cut themselves off from them.
For years, I have messaged Me-TV FM that it should play The Impressions' {a Chicago group fronted by Curtis Mayfield} "Keep On Pushing", a song whose lyrics are as relevant in 2021 as they were in 1964.
It will not do it. Why? It did not directly respond to me, but it has put on its W-WW site that it wants to be a respite for its listeners. I guess it deduces if it played "Keep On Pushing" more often, its racist listeners would tune away.
Racists are not entitled to a respite. They need to be rousted about their attitude. No radio station should genuflect to them.
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