Good Humor ice cream asked Wu-Tang Clan singer RZA to create a new jingle to replace 'Turkey in the Straw,' a ubiquitous ice-cream truck song with racist roots — and is teaching drivers how to replace the music box that plays it.
Good Humor hasn't actually operated any trucks since 1976, explains Russell Lilly, a senior director at the company, but wanted to be"part of the solution."back in 2014
. As he explained,"Turkey in the Straw" is a 19th century folk song that riffs on an Irish fiddle song,"The Rose Tree." Depending on the version you listen to, the lyrics change a little bit every time, but are generally nonsensical. But it wasn't until the advent of traveling minstrel shows that the melody really lodged itself into American pop culture — and the tune acquired racist lyrics.
And as those lyrics make clear, it's a cruel caricature of a free Black man trying to join white society by"dressing in fine clothes and using big words," Johnson wrote. (We won't write out the exact lyrics;
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