# I call racism! Or maybe feminism-- Dixie Chicks and Black Eyed Peas.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 11, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-call-racism-or-maybe-feminism-dixie-chicks-and-black-eyed-peas/233741 "2004-03-11T18:39:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-call-racism-or-maybe-feminism-dixie-chicks-and-black-eyed-peas/233741/41 "2004-03-13T12:21:01Z")

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> _originally posted by Kid\_A_  
> Since it seems everyone seems to think this is GD maybe this should get moved. But I’ll take a shot at this since no one else has. My guess it’s got something to do with cocaine, Reagan was the 80s, popular drug of the 80s was coke, I might be wrong but I think there are some theories about cocaine and Nicarauga or something. Maybe someone else can build on this?

Yeah, that makes sense. Wasn’t Reagan the architect of the War on Drugs? Jay-Z makes no secret of the fact that he was a successful drug dealer before becoming a rapper, and taken in this light, it seems quite reasonable that ‘Reagan [geting] Manhattan to blow’ is a reference to coke prices shooting up as a result of a crackdown on drugs.

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> _originally posted by Biggirl_  
> I’m not seeing anybody flaming anyone in this thread about any song. Oh,wait-- **gex gex** did accuse **Dogface** of blithering.

I didn’t flame **Dogface**. I called the post for what it was. It was entirely free of rational content, consisting of a blast at unnamed celebrities who want to deprive “commoners… [of their] freedom of speech.” His post was, as I said, concerned only with strawmen. My description was not a personal attack, and wasn’t a flame.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-call-racism-or-maybe-feminism-dixie-chicks-and-black-eyed-peas/233741/42 "2004-03-13T20:42:42Z")

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[QUOTE=lissener]  
[list=A][li]Yeah, it’s the audiences.[/li][li]It’s also racism, in that the mainstream media doesn’t take black artists seriously enough to care \*what \* they’re saying.[/list][/li][/QUOTE]  
The media are paying attention, and they are taking them seriously: Remember the [Ice-T](http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/rbicet-92.php) “cop killer” controversy? [Sister Souljah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment) and her statement, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” [Michael Jackson](http://www.krankor.com/archives/000034.html) and the lyrics, “Jew me, Sue me” and “Kick me, Kike me”?

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