Darius Rucker: No Friend of the Confederate Flag
The email below was written by Mr. Bill Hinson and distributed via email. I just wanted to make sure my readers were aware of Mr. Rucker’s feelings regarding the Confederate Flag. This “country music artist” is very popular with the Nashville crowd right now but I know he won’t be getting a cent of my money and I hope my readers will feel the same way!
How soon we forget!
Hootie and the Blowfish (Darius Rucker)
In the article below you will read about Hootie and the Blowfish protesting the Confederate flag in SC.
Remember and never forget that Hootie and the Blowfish’s lead singer at that time was none other than Darius Rucker who now is a recording artist in country music. Rucker has had three number one hits this past year (2009). The songs are: "Don’t think I don’t think about it," "It want be like this for long," and "Alright."
Please pass this information on and on we must spread the word and remind people that Rucker is against your heritage!
If you are your children or grandchildren buy his music, you and them are helping make this guy rich! Again please spread the word about Rucker.
He is trying to sneak in under the radar! It won’t work, not on my radar gun; I am one who never forgets!!!
Pass it on!!!
Bill Hinson
Below is the article and the lyrics to Rucker’s hate song
Here is the link to the story involving Mr. Rucker participating in a march against the Confederate Flag in South Carolina.
Darius Rucker marches to protest the Confederate Flag
Darius Rucker as Hootie of Hootie and the Blowfish in the 1998 album Cracked Rear View lamenting the South Carolina Flag.
Drowning lyrics
Trouble with the world is we’re too busy to think about it, all right
Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?
Tired of hearin’ this shit about heritage not hate
Time to make the world a better placeWhy must we hate one another?
Well no matter what we gotta live together
Just that you don’t look like me, tell me what do you see
When we pass on the street what do you wanna seeP.E.’s coming is all I gotta say
Wanna turn and run away
They’re just telling you how they see it
Right or wrong they don’t care, you wish that they would quit[chorus:]
Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
Cause they don’t look like you
Nanci singing it’s a hard life wherever you go
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Well tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?
Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you’re my brother
You don’t walk like me; you don’t talk like me, saying
Go back to Africa, I just don’t understand[chorus]
I’m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man
No I’m not like you
Why do you hate me so
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
Hating everybody else cause they don’t look like you.Lyrics Submitted by: Compatriot Greg Stewart
i just read it! 12/05/09,11:55am. i thought somthing looked flameleer about him. i've posted it all over my myspace. i will spred the word!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I haven't forgotten either, and I thank you for keeping this in everyone's minds. It's ironic that people like Rucker talk about "hating" people, because we respect our Confederate heritage, and understand what it represents. However, he likes to paint us with the typical liberal "racist" brush because we are proud of who we are and where we're from. He'll never get a penny of my money, the talentless SOB!
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j melton…ya think he needs our money…and i got a flag for you…picture this…black flag with white man stealing land from the indians…that is heritage….or a black flag with white men lie to black talking about 40 acres and a mule…..GOD AIN’T PLEASED WITH IT….OH AND BY THE WAY….YOU TO HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT..I AM ASHAME OF SOME OF MY WHITE RACE…AND BY THE WAY…WHITE PEOPLE KILLED THOUSANDS OF OTHER WHITE PEOPLE OVER BLACK PEOPLE…YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR WHITE BOTHER….BLACK BROTHER…NOT EVEN YOURSELF BECAUSE IF YOU DID YOU WOULD DO WHAT JESUS WOULD DO AND LOVEEEEEEEE…NOW WHAT YOU DO CARE ABOUT IS HATE…IT CONSUMES YOU…WE NEED TO ADD THAT TO ONE OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS AS A SUBTITLE…HOW COULD YOU COME AND DISCOVER SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY INHABITED—OH BUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS PALE FACED AND HE DIDN’T DISCOVER..HE STOLE….WOW
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GoodOldRebel
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August 26th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Uh….don't recall saying anything about hating anyone but…thanks for the advice. I find it amusing that we can "add" or subtract something from God's word.
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GoodOldRebel
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August 26th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Uh….don't recall saying anything about hating anyone but…thanks for the advice. I find it amusing that we can "add" or subtract something from God's word.
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did not know who he was, will certainly not buy any of his music and no self-respecting Southernor should either
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The Confederate Flag is a (internationally recognized) symbol of a nation’s struggle for independence. Ever see an African American wearing African clothes? Long-flowing and colorful robes, and head caps, etc? Why do they wear African clothes, when they were born and raised in the USA? Because they are using their clothes as a symbol of their independence from anglo-american culture and heritage. How is it any different? Should I protest against their clothing as being “hate based”?
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What it appears he's actually protesting in this song is the fact that the confederate flag is being flown on state property on SC. I don't think he'd object very strongly to people 'celebrating their heritage' by flying their own flags on private property, but it's a different matter when the state does it. That flag, while it does represent southern culture and heritage, also has other less-positive connotations unavoidably associated with it, and I think what Mr. Rucker here is protesting is the fact that the state government appears to be supporting those other connotations by displaying the flag on government property. He's not against southerners, or at least it doesn't strike me that way…although it is your right to not buy his music based on your individual beliefs.
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Darius Rucker and stupid ignorant people like him are true racist . I am tired of people putting down the Confederate Battle Flag that do not have any ideal what its true meaning is and whats worse is they do not want to know the real truth . Besides the fact that Rucker is know more a TRUE country music singer than Beethoven was a Rock Star . He is also an ignorant JACK ASS ,
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