“Whitey on the Moon”

Someone mentioned to me that there’s a rap called “Whitey on the Moon.” I checked it on YouTube. Turns out it’s from 1970 by Gil Scott Heron, whose “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” I was familiar with. These were some of the first rap songs, and don’t have the profuse profanities of later raps.

A YouTube of “Whitey on the Moon” is at the end of this blog. The lyrics are here. My comments follow:

This really is a libertarian rap, from 1970. Consider these lines:

I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the moon).

The moon shot cost 0.5% of GDP during the 1960s, one of the three great new wastes of confiscated tax dollars, the 2 others being the Great Society welfare socialism and the Vietnam War. No wonder the country went broke.

Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.
(while Whitey’s on the moon).

The 1960s profligacy was paid for with borrowed money — which we’re still paying off. Now, Bush and Obama have put us even deeper into debt. Obama says he’s going to run up another $9 trillion in debt over the next decade.

The man jus’ upped my rent las’ night.
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon)….
The price of food is goin’ up.

The 1960s government’s mammoth waste sparked inflation that has debased the currency by 95% since then — while pushing the middle class into upper-income tax brackets.

Taxes takin’ my whole damn check.

Black men, on average, die at about age 65, about 10 years less than the white average. So half of them they pay into the rip-off Socialist Security and Medicare systems their whole lives — then get nothing because they’re dead before they can collect.

Why aren’t blacks libertarians?

With all this — and even more ripoffs and tyrannies in the 39 years since the rap was rapped — why aren’t all blacks libertarians? Why don’t they demand the elimination of taxes that give them nothing but bankruptcy? Why do they favor even more government, instead of less?

I can understand why blacks didn’t vote for McCain (and Bush before him), who were terrible; I opposed them, too. But why did they vote for Obama, who’s obviously a stooge of America’s white ruling elite?

Blacks should be less concerned about “Whitey on the Moon” than Whitey on Wall Street, manipulating the government — Democrats as much as Republicans — so Wall Street can profit from inflation, unneeded wars, and depression.