Controversy Over a Word in Graham Parker’s Video

MTV’s refusal to air Graham Parker’s video “Soul Corruption” because it uses the word nigger is outrageous (Pop Eye, by Paul Grein, May 14). Any idiot who reads the lyrics can figure out that the word is used in an anti-racist context.

Why must artistic perception, humor and commentary perennially suffer at the hands of these corporate buffoons in leather pants?

SCOTT D. ALLEN

Pacific Palisades

Parker’s lyric goes: They’ll never let any nigger in / Why do you think it’s called the White House .