Racially Yours is an album recorded by the band The Frogs

The Frogs (band)

The Frogs are an American rock music band founded in 1980, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion. The brothers mainly write and perform short, catchy pop songs, but they are also known for their improvised home recordings which are delivered in a comedic style, and often...

. The album was originally presented to Homestead Records in 1991, but they refused to release it because of its controversial subject matter. At this point the album only consisted of the first 12 songs. After much delay, it was released in 2000 on Four Alarm Records with an additional 13 tracks, and a tongue-in-cheek sticker proclaiming it "the most controversial album of all time".

Unlike the sexually-charged and comedic material on It's Only Right and Natural

It's Only Right And Natural

It's Only Right and Natural is the second album by the band The Frogs and was released in 1989 by Homestead Records. Gerard Cosloy, who was in charge of Homestead at the time, came into possession of some of the Flemion Brothers' improvised homemade tapes and signed them to the label...

and My Daughter the Broad

My Daughter the Broad

My Daughter the Broad is the third album released by The Frogs. It is a compilation of improvised homemade recordings that were mostly recorded in the late 1980s. Many of these songs continue themes from It's Only Right And Natural such as homosexual supremacy and social conservative fears...

, Racially Yours focuses on subjects such as American racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

, genocide

Genocide

Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...

 and patriotism

Patriotism

Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...

. The songs are sung from the point of view of both African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

s and white American

White American

White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...

s, and the lyrics are equally serious as they are satirical. In the song "Blackman, Blackman", Dennis quips, "a black man's heaven is a white man's hell". In "The Flag", Jimmy urges, "brother, let's make the flag

Flag of the United States

The national flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars alternating with rows...

 red, white and black".

Track listing

1. "Truth"
2. "Holidays 4 King"
3. "Sorry I'm White"
4. "White Guy"
5. "400 Years"
6. "Racially Yours"
7. "Now You Know You're Black"
8. "White Like Me"
9. "My Slave"
10. "Freedom"
11. "Whitefully Dead"
12. "BlackMan, BlackMan"
13. "Full of Monkeys"
14. "I Had a Dream"
15. "Revolution"
16. "Massa"
17. "Darkmeat 4 Sale"
18. "The Flag"
19. "An Unwanted Child & A Wanted Man"
20. "2 Blacks Don't Make a White"
21. "The Purification of the Race"
22. "You're a Bigot"
23. "The Blue-eyed Devil & Brown-eyed Angel"
24. "Uncle Sam Loves U"
25. "Prejudiced"

Personnel

• Jimmy Flemion
  Jimmy Flemion
  Jimmy Flemion is a founding member, with his older brother Dennis Flemion, of controversial independent rock band The Frogs. Jimmy is mostly the lead singer and guitarist for the group. He has been known to play solo shows with just an acoustic guitar....
  
   - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals on 01-03, 05-10, 13, 15-23, 25
• Dennis Flemion
  Dennis Flemion
  Dennis Flemion is a founding member, with his younger brother Jimmy, of controversial independent rock band The Frogs. He is the primary percussionist for the band...
  
   - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals on 04, 11-12, 14, 24

External links

• Lyrics at The Frogs Archive
• Dennis Flemion 20 Questions on Philadelphia City Paper
  Philadelphia City Paper
  Philadelphia City Paper is a free alternative news weekly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in November 1981 as a spin-off of the now defunct WXPN Express newsletter. New issues are released every Thursday....