1988: Turn Out Coffee Coloured People By The Score

January 7, 2020

By AHNZ

Banned in the UK!? Melting Pot, by New Zealand supergroup When the Cat’s Away. This classic Kiwi cover from 1988 must now be scratched from our airwaves if it’s not to be censored by force. The track played- and now censored- in the UK is the original song from 1969.

“in breach of its community radio licence after two complaints were received…..Black Diamond FM said it was familiar with Ofcom’s recent Decision concerning the broadcast of the track, and removed it from its music library on 3 September 2019.”- Blue Mink’s melting pot is too hot to handle after Ofcom ruling; The Times

It seems the Mainstream Millennials need to end both the Boomer and the Gen X iterations for being Politically Incorrect or something?

Is this When The Cat’s Away track still playing on NZ radio? Or has it been pre-emptively pulled before someone complains? (note: I heard it playing in Countdown just before Christmas 2019. The SJW Supermarket is usually first in line to conform to Political Correctness so they must have yet to get the memo.)

Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy
Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene

• Lyrics from the song used in both versions, Blue Mink (1969) and When the Cat’s Away (1988)

It seems odd, at first glance, that the Millennial Victimhood Culture would wish to cut down a Boomer and GenX Victimhood Culture anthem. The song is full up of sentiments and lyrics supporting and dreaming of an r-selected utopia. Melting Pot explicitly seeks a world of anti-individuality, without nations or cultures or religions or ethnicities or races…just one homogeneous human sameness. Instead of picking up this musical munition and running it up the flagpole again for the common r-selected cause, Britain’s Chief Censor has shot it down! Apparently Millennial VC is so short of fuel at this point that it has started eating its own tail. It hasn’t long to last.

“We did not agree that this provided sufficient context to mitigate the potential for offence. The title Melting Pot, which may have provided an indication of the track’s overall message, was not broadcast…There was also no other context provided to justify the broadcast of the offensive language. For all of the reasons above, Ofcom’s Decision is that this potentially offensive material was not justified by the context.”- Issue 385 of Ofcom’s Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin
(27 August 2019)

Ofcom has not outright banned this track. However, the effect of requiring a radio station to provide a cultural safety warning and exposition prior to using it will be the same. However, Melting Pot seems likely to survive this purge here in New Zealand because it’s still too close to our hearts and the Victimhood Culture consuming it is fast running out of gas.

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Ref. Complaint upheld by The Office of Communications (Britain’s Orwellian-sounding version of what New Zealand’s Chief Sensor does for us)

Ref. 107.8 Black Diamond FM; Facebook

11/12/1988, Kiwi vocalist supergroup When the Cat’s Away hit #1 in NZ with their cover of Blue Mink’s ‘Melting Pot’ and became household names in the process, NZ on Screen, Facebook (2022)

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