Vanessa Blackwell shared the history of the song in a TikTok video.
, Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, saying,"Morrison says there's a pattern that you can generalize out where the initial capital for the growth of an industry comes from something which is sadly profoundly racist and an exploitation of Blackness. And what some may not realize is that songs, like the one that ended up on the ice cream truck – that whole mess – intersects with the roots of the modern music industry.
"I remember shocking my undergraduates in a fairly good way in my History of Popular Music class. All I had to do was play the first animated cartoon,. It has 'Turkey in the Straw' in it, which we know is a minstrel-type tune, and suddenly you look at Mickey Mouse and think, 'Oh my god...' that guy is in Blackface. That got through to my students in a way that other things did not," he said.
Some companies have already shared that they've changed the tune their ice cream trucks play after learning the song's origins. But, Fink said that if you were to try to scrub our culture clean of everything that is this problematic, we would probably have nothing left."We can accept that there's this tradition that we deeply love, but that it also has these flaws in it. Just like people. You can love somebody and still know they're flawed.
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