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    >  GP> It's clearly a song extolling a sweet brown skinned girl;   
    >  GP> how is that a negative?   
      
    > I think the problem some people have with the song is the     
    > reference to slavery in the early verses.   
      
   That's my spotty memorty at work -- I just looked em up -- yup, not too cool,   
   but it's lyrical poetry, not a "how to" manual.   
      
   Maybe that frst verse is just a flashback to why there's an African American   
   girl to fall in love with -- it could be seen as a flashback lament.   
      
   Most or all songs are meant to be interpreted by the listener.  It's telling   
   when people see only negatives.   
      
   I don't say "they mean ..."; the most I can truthfuly say is, "it could   
   mean..." (based on the actual words &/or what the writers have said about them-   
   -I look them up on occasion)   
      
   per songfacts.com:   
      
   According to the book Up And Down With The Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez, all   
   the slavery and whipping is a double meaning for the perils of being "mastered"   
   by Brown Heroin, or "Brown Sugar." The drug cooks brown in a spoon.   
      
   I can see that --it was the fashionable thing to use double meanings in lyrics.   
      
   The Beatles began it (then cleared up some misunderstandings & assumptions in   
   "Glass Onion")   
      
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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