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mikeldmv t1_j9x8r48 wrote

It’s got major Uncle Tom implications for a lot of people and is actually hated by many. You even might get less objections from suggesting something like Free Bird, honestly.

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mikeoxsmall2023 t1_j9xaumq wrote

Lmaoo cringe take

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mikeldmv t1_j9xc6pl wrote

It’s not my personal take. I’m just letting OP know how unlikely it would be to get support, bc this is the opinion of a lot of people

I’m sure Love Is All You Need is a pretty good guess if there was ever a vote on said topic.

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mikeoxsmall2023 t1_j9xd0r8 wrote

What is “Uncle Tom” about it

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mikeldmv t1_j9xdlrq wrote

I gave you the basic information and already told you it’s not my argument. Feel free to do the research yourself and come to your own conclusions.

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Apostate_Nate t1_j9xw2wv wrote

A lot of what people exactly? I've definitely never heard of this hatred for What a Wonderful World before.

And it doesn't seem that there's any reference to it that google can find either.

Maybe give us some examples, some proof. Otherwise you're pretty much just talking out your butt.

Edit - cool, you're just making shit up in a failed attempt to add weight to an opinion you hold, which is not in fact shared by others. Pretty lame yo. "it's not my personal take", but it seems it actually is your personal take, and one not shared by anyone who ever bothered to say anything to that end in any major media.

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mikeldmv t1_j9y5b01 wrote

Ever heard the song Nappy Heads by The Fugees? Sure doesn’t sound like a respectful reference he’s making there to me. Mocking the shit out of him with his impression, and then he says, “But what the fuck was so wonderful 'bout pickin cotton, on a farm?”

Bob O’Meally, the head of jazz studies at Columbia University in New York, remains divided. While lauding Armstrong as “one of the greatest people of the 20th century”, he was “offended by his presentations … At the time of the rise of Malcolm X, the authority of Martin Luther King, examples in the popular media like Muhammad Ali and others, there was Armstrong – a kind of throwback from another era, with this borderline minstrelsy role that he played. I cringed as a black American.”

article

“Armstrong was regularly called an Uncle Tom.”

Armstrong’s hesitancy to speak out against racism was a frequent bone of contention with his fellow black entertainers, some of whom branded him an “Uncle Tom.”

“During the civil rights movement and beyond, many Black Americans viewed Armstrong as a subservient Uncle Tom figure, a perception "Black & Blues" refutes.”

I love the song. The context is that OP is nominating it to be ‘humankind’s anthem’ ffs, so it definitely seems relevant to bring up controversy. I pointed out there would be push back, and generally topics like this become a much bigger deal for much lesser titles.

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Apostate_Nate t1_j9y5hu9 wrote

Cool, you took a couple kinda sorta references and a couple articles and decided there was this massive hatred for a well beloved song, let alone the even more loved artist... You do you, but you're hilariously wrong. Half a dozen references and you want to turn that into a giant, monolithic hatred of the guy. It just doesn't track with actual reality, sorry.

Just blocking your contrarian idiocy. Have a great life. It's a wonderful world, after all.

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BeautifulLoser62 t1_ja04xg9 wrote

and bread and water...

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mikeldmv t1_ja06882 wrote

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science??

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BeautifulLoser62 t1_ja4yrvj wrote

MIKELDMV, HOW I RESPONDED WAS NOT WRITTEN IN STONE. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT, JUST AS I DO. THEN AGAIN IT'S JUST AN OPINION.
YOU DO KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT OPINIONS DON'T YOU? HAVE A NICE DAY.

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