I always thought there was something wrong with the song Brown Sugar, by the Rolling Stones. It’s blatantly racist. Not only racist, but misogynist. The song is about raping a black girl. In fact, it may also be pedophilia, since she’s just a “girl”. Not only raping her, but it alludes to various other rapists such as the “house boy” and the “slaver”. Also refers to her as a slave. Oh, and she tastes so good “just like a black girl should” - so they’re giving her credit for tasting good and allowing them to rape her. Her mother is a “tent show queen” (read: whore) and her boyfriends were school boys (who were “sweet sixteen”) - so the girl is decidedly underage, since he is “no school boy” and he is the one you hear “just around midnight”. And they got away with it. And they’re still making money off of that song. Well, they did also write Honky Tonk Woman, which shows that they’re not only racist towards black women - they are putting down white women too. I am just appalled that a song that I not only listened to, but loved, has such derogatory and demeaning lyrics. It’s unacceptable. And it should have been banned 37 years ago.

Just look at the lyrics (of Brown Sugar, 1971):

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans.
Scarred old slaver know hes doin’ alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should
A-huh.

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wondrin’ where its gonna stop.
House boy knows that hes doin’ alright.
You should a heard him just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should
A-huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen,
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen.
I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like, just like a black girl should.