You Can't Say That...

...these days anyway!

...Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybodys darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head - she said


Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.
And the coloured girls go, doo dodoo"

Lou Reed, Walk on the wild side (Transformer)

Wo, there feller. Coloured? Isn't that a tad racist? I'm surprised Reed's classic song hasn't been singled out by the PC army. If Mark Twain isn't safe, no one is. Sleep with one eye open.

I'm just waiting for someone to come in with the suggestion to remove the word 'coloured' with 'African-American.'

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You know. I think not only is the art of satire and creative use of metaphors may be dead, our ability to read and comprehend it as well may be on the way out as we try and "clean" up our past.