The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95935 Message #1874098
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Nov-06 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: How Far We Have Come
Subject: RE: Origins: How Far We Have Come
Powerful polemic song. Just shows how putting a quote in context can change how people interpret it...
The line about South Africa indicates that atv latest it's from before 1990, when Mandela was released and the apartheid system collapsed. But I suspect it'd be from 20 years before then.