"Stones Wave White Flag...over 'Brown Sugar' "

 

I'm not a Rolling Stones fan except for a VERY few of their songs...."Brown Sugar" wasn't one of them. But I'm greatly disturbed that lead singer Mick Jagger announced that, after 50 years, the band won't be performing "Brown Sugar" live anymore. 

It's the REASON given that troubles me!! The song has been around since 1971 but all of a sudden, bowing to Political Correctness, the song is not being played live now because to the simple-minded, shallow, knee-jerk reactors out there the song APPEARS to endorse the slavery of black people and the subjugation of women. IT DOESN'T. When I first heard it 50 years ago, I analyzed the lyrics as a song condemning the hypocrisy of white slavers who beat black women but then used them to fulfill their sexual lusts. As I recall, the Stones clarified their position by including a song "Sweet Black Angel" on that album, an admiring tribute to Angela Davis who they specifically said "ain't no slave."* 

Now, 50 years later, Jagger is apparently afraid that some punk kid in 2021 will come along and see "Brown Sugar" out of context and BUST the Stones as being the dreaded "R" word!! NEVERMIND Jagger's famous duet with Merry Clayton, and NEVERMIND his touring with Tina Turner!! He'll be Tarred and Feathered by this new generation of nitwits who create NOTHING that can last 50 years but are only experts at tearing down what OTHERS have done.

Again, this is not a defense of "Brown Sugar." If Jagger became a CHRISTIAN and said he couldn't perform it anymore because the lyrics are too raunchy, I'd be all for it. That would be a GOOD reason to stop performing the song!! But Political Correctness is NOT a good reason. 

Jagger is "waving the white flag" about "Brown Sugar" BEFORE the battle has even started!! (Wait a minute, can we say "White Flag" anymore....is THAT Racist?? Lol)

The irony is that he apparently made this announcement during the group's "No Filter" tour. 

Yeah, "No Filter" except Political Correctness, Mick!!

*Interestingly, the next year, John Lennon's "Some Time in New York City" came out and a prominent song on the double album MIGHT make some think he was a Racist. But Lennon ALSO included a glowing tribute to Angela Davis...WITH HER PHOTO...on that 1972 album to clarify his position!!