Django Reinhardt - Nagasaki

for all the folks who think we haven't made any progress, who think all this "political correctness" is always "wrong" -- just look and listen to the next "musical interlude" -- It's the "Jazz" song, Nagasaki, done by Django Reinhardt, a Gypsy guitar genius, with a French/Italian violin player, Stephane Grappelli, and a Black American multi-talent (singer, tap dancer, trumpet player) named Freddy Taylor doing the vocal. Notice, "back in Nagasaki where the fellas chew tobaccy and the women wicky-wacky-woo", as lyrics.

So, we have a group of marginalized folks, folks not quite accepted in their homelands playing and singing a song that is beyond a doubt RACIST. But, then again, Asian folks seem to have been "open game" until recently. Heck, when I was young, if people went out to a Chinese restaurant they often said, "we went out for 'Chinks'." -- now, if that isn't beyond racist, what is?

without further ado: