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Should songs with questionable lyrics be banned?

Pinball wizard by The Who contains these lyrics
[quote] That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball[/quote]
Or Junior's Farm by Paul McCartney
[quote]I was talking to an Eskimo
Said he was hoping for a fall of snow [/quote]
After all Dr Seuss had his book banned for showing an Asian eating rice
I personally feel there was no intention of ill will
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smiler201256-60
[@:axeroberts] 馃what i always never got was a famous song by elvis costello and the attractions olivers army . what one line meant when it mentions one less white ni@@er which is an impossibility as you are either one or the other 馃し鈥嶁檪锔廰lways puzzles me to what he was talking about exactly
Axeroberts56-60, M
@smiler2012 originally it was not a racist word. John Lennon even wrote the song Women are the N of the world