You have to get past the initial shock value and actually read the lyics. Lou Reed is sending up "wannabe" blacks (nowadays referred to as "whiggers"--there have been several comedy films made about the phenomenon), who imitate what they perceive as the "cool" things that lower-class or ghetto blacks do, but end up insulting black people with their stupid antics. "I don't wanna be a fucked-up, middle class, college student anymore" is the key lyric here. Maybe people offended by the lyrics aren't black, but are college students? Well, yeah--Lou sure tears those morons a new one!
You have to get past the initial shock value and actually read the lyics. Lou Reed is sending up "wannabe" blacks (nowadays referred to as "whiggers"--there have been several comedy films made about the phenomenon), who imitate what they perceive as the "cool" things that lower-class or ghetto blacks do, but end up insulting black people with their stupid antics. "I don't wanna be a fucked-up, middle class, college student anymore" is the key lyric here. Maybe people offended by the lyrics aren't black, but are college students? Well, yeah--Lou sure tears those morons a new one!