I find this song kind of...confusing. However it is not because I don't understand what the song is trying to say, I just can't figure out whether the writer is being smart and ironic or they're just a hypocrite.
I mean it is a guy who got ignored by a cab driver and because of this he states that it was because the cab driver was prejudice and just hates him because of how he looks. However if he got ignored by the driver, that means he had never even talked to the driver, in fact he knows just as much about the cab driver as the cab driver knows about him. He doesn't know why the cab driver didn't pick him up, he just assumes that it is because the cab driver is racist. But he does not know this, for all he knows the cab driver didn't pick him up because him wife was in an accident and he's rushing to the hospital. He doesn't know anything, thus he is also prejudging the cab driver as well, in assuming that he is just a horrible person because he didn't pick him up.
So this song confuses me because I can't tell whether it's showing people how stupid being prejudice is (by assuming outrageous things about a cab driver who he does not know) or it is just an angry guy assuming another man is prejudice without actually realising that that's exactly the same thing that he himself is doing.
I find this song kind of...confusing. However it is not because I don't understand what the song is trying to say, I just can't figure out whether the writer is being smart and ironic or they're just a hypocrite. I mean it is a guy who got ignored by a cab driver and because of this he states that it was because the cab driver was prejudice and just hates him because of how he looks. However if he got ignored by the driver, that means he had never even talked to the driver, in fact he knows just as much about the cab driver as the cab driver knows about him. He doesn't know why the cab driver didn't pick him up, he just assumes that it is because the cab driver is racist. But he does not know this, for all he knows the cab driver didn't pick him up because him wife was in an accident and he's rushing to the hospital. He doesn't know anything, thus he is also prejudging the cab driver as well, in assuming that he is just a horrible person because he didn't pick him up. So this song confuses me because I can't tell whether it's showing people how stupid being prejudice is (by assuming outrageous things about a cab driver who he does not know) or it is just an angry guy assuming another man is prejudice without actually realising that that's exactly the same thing that he himself is doing.