Quite interesting imagery and story telling in this song. In effect it is the old "what if the shoe was on the other foot" theme.
What if it was the whites who were the minority ... how would they react to the systematic discrimination that has occurred to minorities over the years??
Many will argue that "whites" wouldn't do the same things, but we want know. Begs the question is their race / skin colour that has created the socio issues in black American communities, or the systems in place that keep it as the norm.
The last verse is a bit of a mockery of the system, as we know that cops wouldn't bust into a mansion for a personal use drug raid (but they would be doing this almost daily in lower socio-economic communities). Yet chances are they'd find drugs users just the same in these "mansions".
Last note, love the lines:
As all the blacks just walk past with their yoga mats
Eating their kale like all's well in the cul-de-sac
Quite interesting imagery and story telling in this song. In effect it is the old "what if the shoe was on the other foot" theme.
What if it was the whites who were the minority ... how would they react to the systematic discrimination that has occurred to minorities over the years??
Many will argue that "whites" wouldn't do the same things, but we want know. Begs the question is their race / skin colour that has created the socio issues in black American communities, or the systems in place that keep it as the norm.
The last verse is a bit of a mockery of the system, as we know that cops wouldn't bust into a mansion for a personal use drug raid (but they would be doing this almost daily in lower socio-economic communities). Yet chances are they'd find drugs users just the same in these "mansions".
Last note, love the lines:
As all the blacks just walk past with their yoga mats Eating their kale like all's well in the cul-de-sac
@sokorny Very nice and thorough analysis.
@sokorny Very nice and thorough analysis.