Specials, The - Racist Friend Lyrics

If you have a FACIST friend now is the time for your friendship to end. Just do it

Classic tune and on point message from one of my favorite bands ever. Oh, and since a lot of people are asking who the band members are in this video, allow me to name them:

Stan Campbell: lead vocals
Rhoda Dakar: co-lead vocals
Egidio Newton: backup vocals
Jerry Dammers: keyboards
John Shipley: guitar
Gary McManus: bass #RIP
John Bradbury: Drums #RIP
Dick Cuthell: Flugelhorn

Not very subtle are they?

I love my racist frens

More music from The Specials: https://TheSpecials.lnk.to/Listen

♫If your country's full of racist men, now is the time for you, to have no friends.♪

Dels me livre de amigos racistas e de amigos com amigos racistas também! Queima eles todos Jeová!

I soooo need to make a ragga dnb rmx of this. It really should be getting plays at raves.

Should've been no. 1 song ...

Bye Trump. 😳

Everybody with a Republican friend has been here

This song's been around for over 30 years, and these recently empowered racist idiots just now hearing it and getting mad triggered in the comments!

Theme song for ICE raids in America.

play this in schools to youngsters. we are tired of racist shitheads.

Really anti racism

Still horribly relevant in 2019.

My uncle on horns

This song just made me racist... and maybe a little homophobic.

This can only make somebody more racist.

Sometimes it’s difficult when your friends or fam is rascist. But than again...it’s not always nescesary to break up, cause their opinion don’t have to be yours. So maybe you can accept and respect eachother and maybe one day you can even get to the point of understanding. Don’t give up, but learn from eachother. That might be a very important step to get to improve a better world 4 human Race as 1Race..united people of planet earth

All my mates are big racists, what should I do?

@Patrick Clayton tell them to change their views or lose a friend

I've gotten old. I've heard racist rubbish around the dinner table when I was a kid, I've heard it all my life. I've heard it for a life time and now the tendency is to just shrug your shoulders and be quiet, not make waves. No. Let's follow the advice of these kids of 40 years ago and tell them. What could be more important? Just tell them!

Typical leftis song. If you disagree with me, you are dead to me.

And you can bet the only people these clowns are thinking about as they sing this are white.

@Cockshield exactly, like only white ppl can't be racist.

What about a racist president, is that ok?

Jungle conclusions.... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/threelly-ai-for-youtube/dfohlnjmjiipcppekkbhbabjbnikkibo

I'm a huge fan of The Specials for many decades but I'm also a conservative and disagree with their Leftist politics. It's important to remember that the Left controls so many things in society these days such that the word "racist" itself has been redefined. It's gotten to the point that if someone asks me if I'd like to eat at a Mexican restaurant for dinner and I say: "no, I prefer a burger", I could be deemed a "racist" according to the Left.

You've gotta to be kidding me, this is the first time you've ever heard this band and thinking being a poser using your dog whistle logic will actually fool people here. You can't even tell the difference between a Lambretta and a Honda.

Brilliant song👍

Not a single Specials song is irrelevant today...in fact most are even more on point now. Go back & listen to all 3 albums + their latest "Encore". All great material that never ages. Fun Boy Three is great as well.

Nohing changes.

Everyone is a racist in some way. We are all products of our upbringing and environments but its about addressing that sometimes deep seated bias in us and developing as a human being to embrace and understand others. Not such a snappy title though! A tune from a time when groups challenged their fan base.

How i love this song

I leave this song for life

Whats the name of the singer?

Resist racism
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ureChiVzfkU

If you have a trumpist friend, now is the time now is the time...

Who still listening to this in 2018?

try to educate your racist friend from ignorance first

2018... # EleNão.

...unless they’re black or Muslim tho right??

You just know they were singing this song exclusively to white people. Cunts!

Special music, rip JB.

I hope that goes for those racist against whites?

Like Flabbot and David Porkky.

disagree with this message. I say, talk to them.

A bit slow, boring, plodding and rubbish this song.

Not the best the Specials ever did, but good enough, with good lyrics, too.

Fuck you

See and these were skinheads, idk why people nowadays have such nevatives views of skins, like yeah some were but the majority were and are the exact opposite

SHARP for life

I wish I could give this song every thumbs up I have.

Positive sweet vibtation 🔥

The Special Needs

What if your friend means well, but he's kind of stupid, and you think you can help him disregard his stupid ideas?

376 people who have, or are, racist friends.

Timeless tune!🕴

If you see a racist black singer that tell you what to do - you press dislike.

This racist black singer was convicted of rape, so The Specials don't exactly set the standards for morality.

Real talk in 2018⚡️

Hey!!
Pssssssst.
........where can I get some of that new drug called...oh yea, its called "victim-hood"?
I heard that shit gets you high for life!!

Sam White's playlist on spotify anyone?

drummer cool or wat JAMBO 79 DUBLIN

You givem Love. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

shiiit nugga im the rasist friend. but all real people are somewhat racist and prejudice. cheers

Great 'stash on the flugelhorn player

Sadly, the only racist friends I have are my liberal friends. They all seem to suffer from the racism of low expectations and quite frankly are the only friends who even care about skin colour.

Lol 😂 I’m speechless 😶 is this a parody

If you have a leftist friend...

Reggae is the only kind of music that makes me want to kill a random person. This shit is cancerous to the max

This all bullshit :anyone can say is not racist ,hard is to take the cross of your responsibility with your family and friends , all these ethereal values are worst then having no value at all

or you can educate them but if that doesn't work... stomp that mothafucka :p

Be Nationalist instead, vote and push immigrants back home. Black or white. Refugees not welcome.

I use my brain and i'm proud to be a 45 year old white man, who have enough culture, to reject the 'new vawe' of racist thought who grew all around Europe. Expecially here in Italy the people are so ignorant, who forgot that thousands of italians emigrated in America, Australia, Germany, Belgium etcetc.... between the latest decades of '800 and the years after the WW2. And that they were considered as scam, thieves and dirties!!! And the most famous 'brand' that we 'exported' was Mafia!!

"I use my brain and i'm proud to be a 45 year old white man"




dude thats enough for you to be considered a "racist" to these morons

I like this old two tone stuff about racial harmony, You need an arabic version, oh i'm so sorry' only whites can be racist can't they? and what don't be friends with racists? well, i'm happy to say I only have pals who wear white bedsheets over their heads' but not any racists? so that's me in the clear.

Dammers

We wuz kangz

They are deep

I might be racist soooo fucking what.👌







Cry about it 😂

Not racism it was and it is about defend your country and culture

1:09 epic mustache man

Ground breaking band black and white playing together the UK was totally different then

How about the racist relatives that are so embedded in the family that there's no avoiding them? Can I get away with tolerating them providing they keep it at the verbal level?

so the actual specials didn't make this or nelson mandela so why are they on a greatest hits CD if the specials AKA made them instead ? just wondering

Just what I need another lecture from a bunch of jerk-offs that couldn't make a peanut butter sandwich!

now Iz the time

If you have a non-racist friend NOW is the time for your friendship to end.

yo comment section what if i told you this song was about when people were actually racist?

S/o to my red lace homies this song means nothing ur my besties for the resties ♡

Oh no! Not a different opinion! Better keep that hate spreading! (or you know, use your damn logic to change their mind and keep your friends thus letting your friendship get stronger) but I guess just cutting them out works for those of you who can't have a civil debate..

All intelligent people are racist. Communists are always anti intellectual.

While watching a football match on TV I had a bad argument with a friend of mine who was making very rude racist remarks on the black football players of his own team! I got so angry and shouted at him "Racist stop it, f. racist you must stop it". He, also angry, replied "I'm not racist, as you know, I enjoyed insulting those f. negros but I did it in the heat of the moment".....And yet there also several white players who where performiig badly. Why put the blame on the blacks? Was it a matter of colour and race? Simply absurd! (and racist)
Another friend of mine went to the US to visit a chemical plant. When back home he said to me "My trip to US was intergesting, I spoke to a "negro" who told me how they conducted a chemical reaction". When I asked him who was the person he talked to, he said "He was a negro man" The he added : " He was a doctor in chemistry who was in charge of the plant" . In my friend's mental scheme the colour of the skin went prior to the fact that the person he met was a doctor. Had he encountered a white doctor he would have talked about a doctor in chemistry. He certainly would not have said "I met a "white" etc..."
I could cite hundred of these cases. In Italy there are too many people who claim "I'm not a racist, but......" I do not know how to define this kind of racist attitude. It is almost latent, hidden inside, but it exists and comes out whenever there is the chance. I have been trying to be tollerant and keep in touch with these people in spite of their racist comments. I also try hard to get them aware of what they are but to little purpose. What could I do? Should I leave them alone and not talk to them anymore? What could we do to eradicate this primitive attitude?
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Makes ya wonder just WHAT people consider to be racist if not that, eh? "I'm not racist" is something said even by the KKK & Neo-Nazis though so it has lost all meaning.

You should tell. them just what you said on here.I posted on facebook I would rather have no friends than fascist friends. I had to unfriend three, the rest stopped posting fascist crap on my wall. Your tolerance vindicates them

I'll agree to get rid of my racist friends if you all agree to get rid of your marxist/commie friends ...the world will be a much better place for us all

nice message but it doesnt change the fact that regea is terrible

oh sorry, i mean "tWo TOnE sKa"

worst ever song from them

Hey , suddenly timely and relevant as all get out

been posting this on FB a bit lately

Seems a lot of people have and all their racist mates have come to the comments to chat about it

More relevant than ever to those of us in the States

To paraphrase Bernard Manning "I think we should all get together..... black, white, red, yellow, Christian, Jew, Hindus ........ & beat up the muslims.

I have a cat it's black & white 😊

How does it get along?

just the fact that you dig the Specials makes you awesome!

Who's the cutie in the lite blue jeans & tank top? <3

I see this in my Facebook newsfeed. Well well well, and look at when this was filmed and released. It was obvious and prevalent in the past just as today! :) Thanks for posting. My first time seeing and hearing this song.

no such thing as racist friend's

AKA should be in the Title me thinks...two different bands really.