At first I thought Oh, no, Stones what have you done!? But it turns out it’s not them wot dunnit. Keith tells the LA Times:
“You picked up on that, huh?” Richards told the outlet after he was asked why the band has refrained from playing it on the US tour. He added that he doesn’t understand the controversy.“I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is,” Richards said. “Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it. At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this shit.”