You hear that word in 100s of shows on Netflix and no one bats an eye.

The lyrics are not offensive. If I am offended, it is my personal reaction to them. Words are simply symbols to carry meaning. If black people can say the 'n' word (You Tube didn't like me writing the word itself) without it being an issue, the word itself is not the problem. When we sanitise songs or other forms of information, we risk forgetting that such opinions once existed. And we must resist the urge to change "I am offended", which is an expression of personal feelings, to "It is offensive" which is an expectation that things must change because of an opinion.

Hilarious!

Isn‘t the original song with the second verse still lighthearted? Just in an extremely racist way.

Okay so I remember bugs Bunny singing this song, specifically the first verse, and I thought it was just ad-libbed nonsense. Amazing to find those are actual lyrics to the song

Ha Ha Ha , well , it was ok for that time! Now this song is in my head and Oh boy, I'm ma get in trouble- Hey, some Rappers will be played 100 years form now and people will be saying the same things these comments!

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Nothing here offensive to me

You people will reach for anything to be victims or offended. Especially you blue haired, liberal fatties.

Democrat puke progressives outing themselves one. more. time...

I’m a racist and even I think the second verse is racist.

My English not very good, but this is my favorite American song. I still try to learn all of the words.

You’re disgusting. The song is fine.

Still beats rap music. Less N bombs and such

The second verse wasn't even included in the version of "Oh, Susanna" that was in my grandparents' old Stephen Foster songbook, which was published in 1946.

Funny how not a single RAP 'song' is racist. Anyone notice that ? And it's ok to be part of today's children's repertoire !!

I mean this isn't that bad it doesn't anything explicitly raci- ope okay nevermind there it is

The whole point of History is to remember it so the offensive parts are not repeated by future generations. The lyrics to "My Old Kentucky Home" are also offensive, complete with insensitive racial terms of the period. Only snowflakes want to erase History and unfortunately that's the type of mindset that will repeat it.

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So effin what? Get over it.

So we're doing a Channel about music but we don't play the music? If it's a question of trademarks Etc isn't this considered fair use? You indicate you're about to drop the needle and then don't

So only 1 word he said once? How butthurt are the sh!t-skins?

I had no idea about the second verse until just now. - and I'm old. I was about to play "She'll be Comin' 'Round the Mountain", but now I'm afraid.

Recently i was at a swap meet of miscellaneous household stuff; i bought an old 1800s piano songbook with hundreds of songs in it, plenty of plantation/black workers/masters etc type songs in it, some of them pretty shocking content, with black slave pidgeon english in plenty of the songs. very interesting indeed.

The song doesn't seem racist at all. That language is bad but wasn't bad at the time, and it just tells the story of a black man searching for his love. I get no feelings of bigotry at all. If anything, this probably brought awareness at the time

Wow. That went from 0 - 100 real fast 😳

I love it

This is hardly a racist song, it's more a stereotypical song, telling a story in a stereotyped way based on common experience. Don't tell me blacks in the cities today don't still often replace their 'v' with 'b' quite often. I know I've heard it. It's not racist to hear that, nor is it ignorance to speak it as a dialect. Certainly no worse than some of the incomprehensible white dialects of the old South. The middle verse is the real meat of the story and tells how incredibly difficult and troublesome it was to travel such long distances and the crazy shit you see on the road...an electrical circuit apparently electrocuting 500 people swimming in a river (hyperbole for the song, but still). It certainly belongs in the song, one can always change key words. Dunno Foster's attitude toward blacks of the day, but the song is just a piece of stereotyping to tell a story.

Oh, no!!! That's racist (to use the same words in 5 million rap songs)! When you are done feeling sorry about your white skin, maybe try growing a pair of gonads.

Wow

Do you feel better trying to shame a dead man for something he knew not as being bad? Little minded fools searching for hatred wherever they can find it

Holy crap dude... maybe a little less flagellation of your white guilt in the captions would be nice. We all know... racist words... yup... you don't have to reiterate a million times about how this is bad speech. I swear when I see crap like this I am convinced we are doomed as a society.

I'm not offended in the slightest. Shut down these fruitcake revisionists.

GREAT SONG!!!

Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"I come from Alabama" Yeah we know bud

Wood Woody Woodpecker brought me here

Uncle Is Black

"It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry" could mean tears. "The sun so hot I froze to death" could mean the singer was freezing to death from the lack of love even though the weather was warm

All things considered it's not that bad. It could have been WAY worse.

that n-word was and is no big deal. - it wasn't always about prejudice.

ok,

what in the fuuuu

Stephen Foster was not an abolitionist.

The one who does not know history is doomed to repeat it, by censoring the original lyrics, they do hide it from us

Give me the racism.

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1:03 whoever sung that song better be black

Im pissed of that good historical songs like these get changed but in rap they say the N-word 500 times and talk about doing it with women.

Very good. This shows why it is very important to keep historical facts and documents uncensored, no matter how offensive they might be people in any current day-and-age. Yes, the second stanza is pretty hard to take, but without it, the song makes no sense. This is the first time I've heard the second stanza, and finally realize the true meaning of the song.