| PART 5 YTN-And now I was wondering if I could just get your opinion on some things....What do you think of the current music scene? You know...country, rap? JR- I don't like rap. I'm not big on it. I don't like it at all. Can't even understand it, except a few cuss words. YTN-And have you noticed...I think someone over at Geocities either has a really sick sense of humor, or just wasn't paying attention. Because, have you noticed that they advertise 3 or 4 different rap artists in the little ads up in the corner on your site? They actually advertise black rap artists on your web site! JR-Oh, really?! (Busts out laughing...loudly.) YTN-Yeah! I thought it was hysterical! I mean, what the hell...they've got Jay-Z...advertised!...on the Johnny Rebel website! (Everyone still laughing loudly at the absurdity of this.) JR-And you know, Bradley? I wanna tell you one more thing...I'm not really a racist. I got nothing against blacks. Except their attitude. I got something against their attitude. When these were written...I had a lot of black friends. I mean...there were blacks in the studio, and they knew we were doing these things. And they were our friends, you know. YTN-So was the attitude of any of the other musicians one of resentment, or was it all just in fun? JR-No. It wasn't any resentment. It was just a fun thing. We'd laugh...it was all fun stuff, and we just laughed at that stuff...I mean, when I wrote Some Niggers Never Die...I swear to God...my wife....I was making myself laugh. She'd say, "I can't believe you're saying that!" But, you know, it was all in humor...and I...I told her I wanted to tell you this. I'm not a 'nigger hater'. It's just their damn attitude. I'm beginning to be a racist. I'm beginning to realize that now. Because...of that damn attitude! You know? It's the younger blacks. Not the older blacks. YTN-Well...how do you mean? What are you seeing nowadays that you didn't used to see? JR-Well... the attitude of these black kids nowadays. I mean...God-damn! Everybody thinks we owe 'em something. And, of course, they weren't like that before the damn civil rights bill...it got started by Martin Luther King...he started all that horse crap...making these niggers believe a bunch of horse crap... YTN-Lookin' For A Handout? JR-That's right? That's the story of it, you know. YTN-And you think it's gotten worse? JR-It's gotten worse. It got better for a while, then after 4 or 5 years....when whites started accepting...slowly...but surely...the nigger...finally got to where, hell! Look where we're at? If I go downtown right now, and walk down the street, past a nigger...a younger nigger....and tell him "Hello",,,half of them sonofabitches won't give you the time of day, you know? They'll look at you like you're crazy! It's the attitude that's there. I don't have anything against color, because they didn't cause their color. The Good Lord made 'em black. But he didn't give 'em that attitude. That's on them. They got that attitude on their own. They just believe that white men still owe them something. Hell! My ancestor's...I'm a Cajun! We were run out of Nova Scotia, man! We were exiled from Nova Scotia. I didn't have no slave! You know, and either did any Cajuns down here, I don't imagine. You know? YTN-Okay..well I can't claim to know what kind of tension there was back in the days, because that was before my time...I've just read, and seen the videos...but you actually think things have deteriorated? You think it's gotten worse? (Racial tensions,etc.)?You think the attitudes have gotten worse? JR-Oh, they did. I did. What I knew about blacks at that time?...the ones I dealt with?... they were all fine guys. I even dated a gal, one time, in a black man's car. Lightning Slim. Old blues singer. Very popular. I used his car to date a gal one time, you know? Me, him, and Lazy Lester...we were real close friends. All the blacks, that I had contact with, were fine guys. They were from around here. We didn't have this crap in the local area. I wrote these things off things I was seeing on tv, or hearing about on the radio. Those were the only racial tensions I knew about. |