Dear professor tanenbaum,
I would say that he was trying to defend the poor whites. I believe he wanted to tell the blacks you can't always blame the poor whiteman. He is just following what he was told or in fact ordered to do.. I beleive he is for the blacks because of all the other songs he wrote in order to help the blacks protesting their rights.he wanted to blacks to really take notice of the real bad guys.Which in fact is the government.
Interesting - if you look at the lyrics again, you'll see that it's not just that poor whites who support racism - including the murderer of Medgar Evers - are doing what they're told - but that there's a specific manipulation going on. What do poor whites get from racism that makes them go along with it?
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