{"id":277,"date":"2024-10-02T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2024-10-02T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:10:59","slug":"hootie-and-the-blowfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Hootie and the Blowfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on Hootie (AKA Darius Rucker)<\/p>\n<p>How soon we forget!<\/p>\n<p>Hootie and the Blowfish (Darius Rucker)<\/p>\n<p>In the article below you will read about Hootie and the Blowfish protesting the Confederate flag in SC.<\/p>\n<p>Remember and never forget that Hootie and the Blowfish&#8217;s lead singer at that time was none other than Darius Rucker who now is a recording artist in country music. Rucker has had three number one hits this past year (2009). The songs are: &#8220;Don&#8217;t think I don&#8217;t think about it,&#8221; &#8220;It want be like this for long,&#8221; and &#8220;Alright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please pass this information on and on we must spread the word and remind people that Rucker is against you&#8217;re heritage!<\/p>\n<p>If you are you&#8217;re children or grandchildren buy his music you and them are helping make this guy rich! Again please spread the word about Rucker.<\/p>\n<p>He is trying to sneak in under the radar! It won&#8217;t work not on my radar gun; I am one who never forgets!!!<\/p>\n<p>Pass it on!!!<\/p>\n<p>Bill Hinson<\/p>\n<p>Below is the article and the lyrics to Rucker&#8217;s hate song<\/p>\n<p>Darius Rucker (now he like us???) as Hootie of Hootie and the Blow Fish in the 1998 album Cracked Rear View lamenting the South Carolina Flag.<\/p>\n<p>Drowning lyrics<\/p>\n<p>Trouble with the world is we&#8217;re too busy to think about it, all right<br \/>\nWhy is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?<br \/>\nTired of hearin&#8217; this [censored] about heritage not hate<br \/>\nTime to make the world a better place<\/p>\n<p>Why must we hate one another?<br \/>\nWell no matter what we gotta live together<br \/>\nJust that you don&#8217;t look like me, tell me what do you see<br \/>\nWhen we pass on the street what do you wanna see<\/p>\n<p>P.E.&#8217;s coming is all I gotta say<br \/>\nWanna turn and run away<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re just telling you how they see it<br \/>\nRight or wrong they don&#8217;t care, you wish that they would quit<\/p>\n<p>[chorus:]<\/p>\n<p>Drowning in a sea of tears<br \/>\nHatred trying to hide your fears<br \/>\nLiving only for yourself<br \/>\nHating everybody else<br \/>\nCause they don&#8217;t look like you<br \/>\nNanci singing it&#8217;s a hard life wherever you go<br \/>\nAbout some fat racist living in Chicago<br \/>\nTrying to teach his kids to hate everyone<br \/>\nWell tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?<br \/>\nWhy must we hate one another?<br \/>\nWhen the people in the church, they tell me you&#8217;re my brother<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t walk like me; you don&#8217;t talk like me, saying<br \/>\nGo back to Africa, I just don&#8217;t understand<\/p>\n<p>[chorus]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but<br \/>\nWhen I walk down the street, tell me what do you see<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a man, I&#8217;m a man, I&#8217;m a man<br \/>\nNo I&#8217;m not like you<br \/>\nWhy do you hate me so<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nHating everybody else cause they don&#8217;t look like you.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics Submitted by: Compatriot Greg Stewart<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Greg!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics verification&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdomain.com\/8\/hootie_the_blowfish\/drowning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">http:\/\/www.lyricsdomain.com\/8\/hootie_the_blowfish\/drowning.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hootie Joins March Against Confederate Flag<br \/>\nSource:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1430132\/20000406\/hootie_blowfish.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1430132\/20000406\/hootie_blowfish.jhtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on Hootie (AKA Darius Rucker) How soon we forget! Hootie and the Blowfish (Darius Rucker) In the article below you will read about Hootie and the Blowfish protesting the Confederate flag in SC. Remember and never forget that Hootie and the Blowfish&#8217;s lead singer at that time was none other than Darius Rucker who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}