Sentence examples for the coon from inspiring English sources
That was by the Coon Creek Girls, for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939.
As degrading as the "coon songs" were and are, they became essential to our survival, how those who determined our destiny would have us be heard.
How do we read their invocation of a racist tradition of theatre, music and cinema in the US and South Africa's history of the coon carnival?
"He was nice, and he liked to joke around," said Kathy Pagan, 20, who lives across the street from the Coon home.
A dozen or so unhappy clients attended a meeting sponsored by the Coon firm here last month, with some saying they had been charged fees despite having never hired the firm.
It's an irony of history that the white coon shouter Arthur Collins was the first to cut Williams's song, in 1905 -- the song would ultimately put him and most of his kind out of the coon business.
Consider Metallica, the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra of our day.
In the summer of 1924, a Kansas City band called the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra did something unusual: it went on tour.
By James Surowiecki In the summer of 1924, a Kansas City band called the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra did something unusual: it went on tour.
In one scene, the coon-hatted Hercules, the Pride of the Prairie, rescues a young Easterner from marauding Indians by shooting ten "howling savages" with ten shots of his trusty rifle.
In the rap which we find degrading, you can hear the rage, you can hear the anger, you can hear the self-hate very clearly defined, in the absence of the same kind of tyranny that those who lived in the coon-song period faced.
