You are black, and I am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight
Side by side, you are my amigo, negro
Let's not fiiiight.
Posted on 04/09/2013 12:48:19 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Brad Paisley’s new album Wheelhouse isn’t even in stores yet (it’s set for release tomorrow), but already one of the songs is causing controversy for its lyrics that attempt to address racial tensions in the South.
Called “Accidental Racist,” the song appears aimed at helping to bridge misunderstandings. The song starts out with a guy apologizing for the Confederate flag on his T-shirt to a a worker he encountered at the local Starbucks. As his protagonist sings, “when I put on that T-shirt, the only thing I meant to say, is I’m a Skynyrd fan.”
“I’m proud of where I’m from,” the chorus goes, “but not everything we’ve done.” And his protagonist does admit that he’s “got a lot to learn,” and ultimately, “I just want to make things right.”
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It’s a real shame that the liberals were allowed to infiltrate into country music.
Starbucks?
Ironic considering he's from West Virginia, which split from Virginia over slavery and fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War. So does that mean he's a hard core Confederate who is ashamed that his state sided with the union? Or more likely, doesn't have the slightest idea about his home states history.
I’ve never liked Brad Ppaisley...he’s a phony little puke.
It’s actually a good storyline for a country song in modernity and I think he nails it.
Paraphrased
Proud to be Southern and wear the red flag but, my generation didn’t start this nor do we condone it.
LOL
I know. I heard that and almost didn’t finish listening to the song.
It ain’t a chart climber but, I get the point.
I know. You tell people that but, for West Virginia, there would be 49 states and they don’t get it.
So why are you a racist, Brad? What is it that you did that you aren't proud of? Do you think blacks are inferior to you? Have you attacked a black person just because he is black? Have you used the "N" word? Do you belong to a club that doesn't let blacks in?
Or is this just another preening lecture about how whites should feel guilty about what someone did in the past to make a Lib like yourself feel better?
By the way, I heard the song and its horrible.
Pathetic! Dead end musings on the subject of nothing!
you are damn right,my grand father was a confederate soldier he wasn’t somebody i read about in a book i knew him.
Exactly!
What God-fearing-redneck-Skynard-fan-with-a-confederate flag-shirt-Southern boy ever be doing in a freaking Startbucks anyway?
Especially apologizing.
Something don’t add up here.
At the farmers market where I lived, there was a vendor(black) who always wore a grubby Confederate Flag cap. Someone asked him once why he wore that thing and he said “Because a white man told me to take it off once”.
You are black, and I am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight
Side by side, you are my amigo, negro
Let's not fiiiight.
“I just want to make things right.”
LOL! Fools errand! don’t you get it yet shorty? Blacks
have made it to the top of all areas of American life, the
ones who wanted to, that is. The only way to make things
“right” is that big,fat reparations check. And even then...
You must admit though the he is one of the best country singers out there today. Very much a family man. God bless him and his family.
Did they even play ANY country music at all during the ACM show?
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