"In a house at the end of the town, little gangster looks out, the journeyman lobbies so fast, knocks on its door.

Help ah, help ah, help me, otherwise I'm shot.

Come on, come into the house, let me skin your skin ”.

That's how it sounded when comedian Claes Malmberg sang an old song with rewritten lyrics in the latest episode of Parliament.

Activist and suburban poet Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee has criticized the joke in a high-profile post on Instagram.

The post has been viewed 300,000 times so far and liked by 20,000 people.

Several celebrities and influencers have shared the post on their accounts to agree with the criticism.

"Not satire to kick down"

According to Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee, it is not about the lullaby or the jokes themselves.

She rather thinks that the jokes were symbolic of how she feels that the rhetoric around and the view of people living in the suburbs has become.  

- Suburban residents have been so painted black for a long time now that no one reacts to this type of dehumanization, she tells SVT Nyheter.

She takes up current events and says that it will be scornful to post jokes in that way.

- Just yesterday there was a shooting and six days ago a guy was shot where I live.

It happens at the same time as we sign up for an equivalent school but only get more police in the area, she says and continues:  

- This is about us who actually live in these areas not even having time to mourn clearly from everything that happens, while these comedians joke about it at prime time.

Malmberg states in an interview with Expressen that he is not the one who wrote the joke, and that it is the responsible publisher who has the ultimate responsibility.

At the same time, he says "If it is the case that people feel offended and upset, I of course apologize".

Producer: "We work with everyone"

The producer for Parliament, Johan Janrell, believes that this is a misunderstanding.

- The program makes fun of the fact that society has left vulnerable areas to its fate, and the emotional coldness of the privileged see themselves as greater victims than those who die, he writes to SVT News.

He continues:

- Failed and accurate imitations of dialects and sociolects are a recurring source of humor in Parliament, it is sad that people take it badly, but the program drives everyone.