This is too insane not to be real for 2020.

Good Humor is “calling on ALL drivers to STOP playing ‘Turkey in the Straw’ immediately" because of its association with minstrel shows in the 1800s.

But Good Humor has good news! They have an idea for a new song https://t.co/BeLAppQcTb

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 13, 2020

I, like countless kids learned the Sharon Lois and Bram lyrics.  We knew. Nothing of minstrel shows.  My association with that song is ice cream trucks and learning to sing folk songs in elementary school music class.

No child today hears that song and thinks “this is a song of black oppression because my ancestors had to sing it while they danced for their dinner before racist white people.”

If they do it’s because their woke parents told them that, which really is child abuse.  There is no reason to make a little kid miserable, shouldering them with a history of racism they don’t have the higher thought capability to emotionally process.

So what did they replace Turkey in the Straw with?

A song by Wu-Tang.

The rap band from the 1990s that used the n-word liberally, sang songs about the criminal life style, abusing women, and drugs. They embodied the gangster rap lifestyle so much, one original member Ol’ Dirty Bastard was murdered.

But sure, letting one of these guys create a new ice cream truck song is less problematic that an old folk song, the lyrics nobody knows, because the popular version was created by some hippie Canadian kid’s music folk singers.

This is such bullshit.