Fcc Faces First Amendment Charge

[David Morris]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1482899,00.html
Wednesday January 30, 2002 1:10 PM

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York poet is suing the Federal Communications 
Commission, claiming the agency violated her First Amendment rights when it 
deemed one of her songs indecent and fined a radio station for playing it.

The 1999 song, ``Your Revolution,'' didn't include any of the seven words 
prohibited by the FCC but it contained vivid sexual imagery.

Poet Sarah Jones said she was surprised by the ruling because she wrote the 
song as a criticism of the degradation of women in hip-hop. Her lawsuit, 
filed in federal court Tuesday, asks the court to overturn the FCC ruling 
and seeks an injunction against a $7,000 fine the FCC imposed on Portland, 
Ore., radio station KBOO-FM for airing the song.

The station contested the fine in July, but no action has been taken, said 
Jones' lawyer, Lisa Davis.

The FCC declined to comment on the case.

http://www.africana.com/DailyArticles/index_20010830_1.htm
Your Revolution
By Sarah Jones

Your revolution will not happen between these thighs
Your revolution will not happen between these thighs
Your revolution will not happen between these thighs
Will not happen between these thighs
Will not happen between these thighs
The real revolution ain't about bootie size
The Versaces you buys
Or the Lexus you drives
And though we've lost Biggie Smalls
Maybe your notorious revolution
Will never allow you to lace no lyrical douche in my bush
Your revolution will not be you killing me softly with fujees
Your revolution ain't gonna knock me up without no ring
And produce little future M.C.'s
Because that revolution will not happen between these thighs
Your revolution will not find me in the back seat of a jeep
With L.L. hard as hell, you know
Doing it and doing and doing it well, you know
Doing it and doing it and doing it well
Your revolution will not be you smacking it up, flipping it or rubbing it 
down
Nor will it take you downtown, or humping around
Because that revolution will not happen between these thighs
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