I love Lou Reed and when this song first came out in the early 1990's I didn't know what to make of it. There was hysteria about Waldheim being a so-called Nazi, it was after Israel, for example, had invaded Lebanon and enabled the slaughter at Shatillah and Sabra. I listened closely to the song a couple of years ago and felt really pissed off that Lou could be so blatantly racist. He mentions the PLO, Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Waldheim, and, of course, the Pope. Now I hate the Pope as much as any rational human being but to throw the stones from his glass house at the other four shows how blind he is to the realities of white supremacy, not to mention the insane act of European Colonialism which the White Supremacist world inflicted on about the only people who never persecuted Jews, namely the Palestinians. Where is your sense of common ground with these people who have been been slaughtered and abused and dispossessed by your Zionist brethren, Lou? ,
I love Lou Reed and when this song first came out in the early 1990's I didn't know what to make of it. There was hysteria about Waldheim being a so-called Nazi, it was after Israel, for example, had invaded Lebanon and enabled the slaughter at Shatillah and Sabra. I listened closely to the song a couple of years ago and felt really pissed off that Lou could be so blatantly racist. He mentions the PLO, Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Waldheim, and, of course, the Pope. Now I hate the Pope as much as any rational human being but to throw the stones from his glass house at the other four shows how blind he is to the realities of white supremacy, not to mention the insane act of European Colonialism which the White Supremacist world inflicted on about the only people who never persecuted Jews, namely the Palestinians. Where is your sense of common ground with these people who have been been slaughtered and abused and dispossessed by your Zionist brethren, Lou? ,