Ole Chuckie's done caved in to Arab-American civil rights groups complaining about one of his songs.
Daniels Won't Play 9/11 Song in Mich. Town AP 08/07/04
The song in question is "This Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag." You can read the lyrics on ole Chuckie's Web site:
This ain't no rag it's a flag
And we don't wear it on our heads
It's a symbol of the land where the good guys live ...
This is the United States of America
The land of the brave and the free
We believe in God and we believe in justice
We believe in liberty ...
This ain't no rag, it's a flag
Old Glory red, white and blue
The stars and the stripes when it comes to a fight
We can do what we have to do
The AP item helpfully explains:
"Ragheads" is a derogatory term for Arabs, Muslims and others who wear turbans or cover their heads.
Ain't No Rag is also the title of his classic 2003 work of political philosophy published by Regnery Publishing.
Chuckie, what are you thankin', boy? What are your admirers gone say when they hear that their Nashville Guru of Patriotic Correctness has done gone and caved in to a bunch of A-rabs? They're gone be askin', "How come ole Chuckie ain't standing up for his Amurican principles?"
Chuckie, why don't you just git up there and play yore song and show everybody that your Christian American patriotic Republican Party principles include promoting ethnic hatred against Arabs and pandering to the most mindless jingoism?
Be a man, Chuckie, and git up there and show them Michigan folks what Chuckie the devout Christian guru of Patriotic Correctness is really all about. Like yore song says, this is "the land of the brave and the free." You ain't gone let a little criticism from some sissy liberals make you back down now, is you? You know, Old Glory red white and blue. When it comes to a fight, "we can do what we have to do."
I mean, come on, if a girl like Linda Ronstadt or Natalie Maines can do it, so can you, Chuckie! Stand up yonder on stage and show us what you really stand for! You cain't be acting like no girlie-man or something.
But Chuckie seems to be acting like some kind of wimp about the whole thang. Say it ain't so, Chuckie! Charlie Daniels Angers Arab Community Washington Post (AP) 08/06/04.
Daniels says the song is not directed at Arabs and Muslims in general, just at turbaned terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
"It's not anti-Arab or anti-anything," he said Wednesday by phone from Tennessee, where he lives. "The only thing it's `anti' is the people who bombed us on 9/11. I have people who say you're putting down people who wear turbans. I'm not."
"There are good Arabs and bad Arabs, good Greeks and bad Greeks, good people and bad people in any race," Daniels said. "I'm not a racist person. I came up during the old Jim Crow days. I know what racism is."
Good Greeks and bad Greeks? Arabs, Greeks, any race? Uh, Chuckie, you think Arabs and Greeks are whole separate races? "I'm not a racist person. I came up during the old Jim Crow days." Well, Chuckie, most white folks in the Jim Crow days were taught to be racists. "I came up in the Jim Crow days" is not exactly a convincing argument for a Southern white guy to claim he's not a racist. Especially one who rants on his Web site about promiscuous black folks.
Actually, Chuckie was supposed to play Saturday night. I haven't come across any reports yet of what he actually did. Did he stand up and fight back like a man? Or did he back down like a wimp? Keep your eyes on the news...
For more on my man (?) Chuckie, see the Index to the Chuckie Watch.
3 comments:
I've read all your "Chuckie Watch" posts. My question is why do you feel the need to use words like: git, thankin, yore, etc. when you do these particular posts? Are you making fun of southerners? Using language you think only "dumb" southerners or Charlie Daniels' fans would understand? You sure don't use those kinds of words in your other posts. What gives? From a native Georgian, now a Houston transplant.
I'm calling attention to his phony posturing as a Southern "good ole boy." Daniels promotes hardcore rightwing politics that basically consist of promoting country-club economics with pseudo-redneck pretentiousness. You don't have to use a Southern accent to do that. But that *is* Daniels' schtick.
It's a fact of American politics today that the most loyal core of Republican votes right now consists of white men in the Southern states. It's not because Republican policies promote opportunities for, or address the real needs of, ordinary Southern white guys, but more because of "culture war" issues. Chuckie is trying to reinforce that. But Democrats can talk the same language and use the same accent if the situation calls for it.
I doubt any pollster has done a sampling of Chuckie's political fan base. :) But I'm guessing that the hardcore fans of Chuckie's politics are largely older Southern white guys who were raised in the Jim Crow days that Chuckie talks about. And who learned the lessons that Southern white folks in the segregation days were expected to learn. One of their favorite whines is, "liberals don't want to talk about [insert whine of the day, usually something to do with race]."
But that ain't really so. - Bruce
I'm from Nashville, and I don't see it as a put-down of southerners. It's the perfect tone for these marvelous critiques of that extremist hate-filled bushlick.
--R. Penn
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