Track 1 on Sometime in NY City
I've been reading comments about that song on here over the last few months, particularly the decision to exclude it from the Power to the People remixes that have come out.
I thought it unlikely that two lines in the chorus, the one with the racial slur and the other making reference to slavery, would have been employed by John and Yoko out of nowhere. They had lots of personal connections to radicals as well as being particularly well read. They also took care with and deliberated over their opinions.
Anyway, the book Feminisms A Global History by Lucy Delap, mentions both those lines but doesn't mention the song—that's because feminists themselves have previously said them.
> German feminist Karin Schrader-Klebert [argued] that 'women are the negroes of all nations'.
And:
> Nineteenth-century African American women activists such as Sojourner Truth and Anna Julie Cooper had already written about 'double enslavement'.
So it's not like these words, if they are bad, are straight out of Lennon's head. He was simply trying to amplify arguments leading feminists themselves were using. His error, again, if there is one, is not holding those ideas up to a high enough level of scrutiny before repeating them.