The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150310   Message #3501385
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Apr-13 - 09:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: I can't walk a mile in your skin
Subject: RE: BS: I can't walk a mile in your skin
The lyrics are here as well as a playable audio file:

http://rapgenius.com/Brad-paisley-accidental-racist-lyrics

(By the way, that's an interestingly-constructed website. Besides displaying the lyrics, it apparently allows users to post their own commentary on the lyrics. Click on any line of the lyrics and it will bring up someone's comment, plus other people's replies to that comment, etc. I was recently wishing we had something like that for, say, the State of the Union address—provided that the people making the comments had some expertise—but I digress.)

While I can see the value of a dialog, I have to say, some of this is rather weak. For example:

"If you don't judge my do-rag, I won't judge your red [Confederate] flag"

"If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains"

I don't see the moral equivalency in those comparisons.

By the way, shouldn't this thread be in the music section? And I wish the title of the song had been put in the title of the thread.