Here's some of the smash hits in Flocabulary, and yes, it's flagrantly racist:
"There were five tribes white guys called civilized,
because of the way their government was organized:
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek.
Isn't cheap? They call my Jeep a Jeep Cherokee?
What if they called my Jeep a Jeep Jew?
Imagine the outrage. What would you do?
Nice mash-up on the Bill of Rights:
6. The Bill of Rights
LYRICS
Number One
Freedom of religion, speech, and press,
plus you can assemble in crowds and protest.
Number Two
Right to bear arms and cannons,
I bet the Minutemen didn't know about handguns.Number Three
When soldiers gets sleepy,
you don't have to let them sleep up on your couch.
Number Four
No one can search and seize.
It protects me, unless people have a warrant to arrest me.
Number Five
If you arrest me, respect me.
Sorry Alex, there's no Double Jeopardy.
What’d you do after school? "I plead the fifth."
What’d you do after that, dude? "I plead the fifth."
I don't have to incriminate myself or risk my health,
whenver I'm in trouble, I just plead the fifth.Number Six
You must process me speedily.
Number Seven
In front of my peers on the jury.
Number Eight
You can't use cruel or unusual punishment.
You can't make me drink turpentine for the fun of it.
Number Nine
The people get more than these rights.
Number Ten
States can make other laws, and they just might.
This is the Bill of Rights.
And finally, this nice little ditty, ODWM:
7. O.D.W.M.
LYRICS
Yo, he step up in the House, people call for joy,
but his slaves be thinking they're going to jump this boy
for spitting all that hypocrisy, talking about equality,
but beating brothers who ain't picking up his cotton properly.
He wanted people to choose their religion like dim sum.
Thought the Pres was too powerful like King Kong.
Ding Dong!
Listen to this, not an abolitionist, we're hitting this,
this is softball, slow-pitch. Witch!
Check the map, western half is black and dark.
Buy Louisiana with bonds. We're rich like Häagen-Dazs.
Jefferson sends out Lewis and Clark,
forty men, two-by-two like Noah's ark.
West on the Missouri, winter in Bismarck,
this is nature dawg, this ain't Central Park.
Indian teenager named Sacagawea joins the group.
We’re the Hekawi like F-troop.
Guides them through Rockies like MapQuest,
met Indians and bears, no time to nap or rest.
On the real, expedition mapped the whole west.
Came home, Lewis killed himself, he was depressed.
Who's going to mess with him? He goes by Thomas Jefferson,
the dude who drafted the independent declaration.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time,
with the blood of patriots and tyrants . . .
O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
We're talking 'bout some Old Dead White Men.
There's a thin line between a hater and a lover.
Burr and Hamilton running for governor, but run for cover.
They're dueling. Hamilton missed the mark like Crystal Pepsi,
Burr shot him in the face like Dick Cheney.
What's amazing kid is what came after it:
Burr tried to form the United States of Aaron Burr,
got caught, tried for treason, gave many reasons,
washed his hands, jumped bail to France. Levez les mains.
Jefferson's chilling in Paris, thinking lofty thoughts,
one of his visiting slaves steals his heart.
She's dressed in yellow, she says "hello,
you probably noticed me in the fields of Monticello."
Jefferson and Sally Hemings sitting in a tree, M-A-K-I-N-G many babies.
First come scandal, then comes more.
Now Jefferson's got his face on Mount Rushmore.
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. . . Jefferson, Jackson,
Madison, Washington,
Monroe, Adams,
John Quincy Adams . . .
O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
We're talking 'bout some Old Dead White Men.
Free Lemonade! Free OJ, like Johnny Cochran.
Monroe Doctrine says Europe don't come a-knocking.
Don't mess with our continent; we ought to get a fence around
all of South America to keep you people out of it.
Called it the Era of Good Feelings but they're wrong.
White men getting richer than Enron, they're steppin' on
Indians, women, and blacks. Era of Good Feelings doesn't cover the facts.
Andrew Jackson thinks he's a tough guy,
killing more Indians than there are stars in the sky.
Illegal wars in Florida, killing the Seminole.
Saying "hello" then putting the Creek in hellholes.
Like Adolf Hitler, he had a Final Solution.
"Go away Indians! I don't want you to live here anymore!"
Cherokee at the Supreme Court appealed.
They got the boot, they had to walk down the Trail of Tears.O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
O.D.W.M.
We're talking 'bout some Old Dead White Men.
Geez, my IQ just dropped about 40 points. Anyone care to mount a good defense of this program now? This does nothing to improve race relations. I read "hate whitey" in all of this. It's an abomination and my tax dollars sure as hell don't need to be funding this.
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