Hell, they could’ve been singing “A-B-C-1-2-3” and I would’ve congratulated them on their little hit record and kept it moving. For me it wasn’t about the lyrics being dumb—and, I mean, it wasn’t like they were saying, “Nigger nigger nigger.” But that image, those symbols, that’s what’s insidious. Folks rally around that stuff, they claim it, they hurt people like you and me in the name of it. So when I laid eyes on that Bond Brothers album cover [a studio shot of the members facing the camera in a line, each wearing a Confederate flag belt buckle on the waist of his jeans]… It was like I had
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