Kevin, I agree.

The lyrics seem to be sarcastic. It may just be how I read them if a mother were singing the song to her child IN THIS TIME AND PLACE. Maybe they were taken literally back in the day.

Azizi, you seem pretty easy to offend sometimes. I'd get pissed off if someone were singing the song at ME and looking like they were waiting for a reaction, but that all boils down to what the singer MEANT by it. We can't know that, and so the song is open to whatever interpretation someone wants to give it.

As to those 'stereotypically drawn Black children', there are people who collect that sort of African American memorabilia. One day, people will stop having reactions to this sort of thing and just look at it as something from the used-to-bes. Not there yet.