This song is mainly about the fight against racism that took place in countries. It talks about how kids are getting involved in gangs and caught up in a whole lot of bad things that should be avoided. This song is basically calling out all of the hatred and all of the un-needed discrimination that takes place in today's society.
It is also about the disintegration of society's values. For example :
"But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate"
Here, racism is being expressed in violent/humiliating methods nowadays according to this song.
"As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction"
Materialism is getting more common. Making money seems to be the most important thing in people's minds now and they only got more and more selfish
The part which impacted me most is this part :
"Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema"
It seems that the youth are easily influenced by the media. This leads to the rise in juvenile crime and violent acts. For example, a kid sees a bad guy robbing a bank and if it seems fun to him, he might try doing so too, except at a smaller scale like stealing from his friends. This is true as most of time, young children are seen imitating the cartoon hero Superman ---> Jumping from chairs with a towel tied to their backs as capes. I think that the media should be broadcasting education knowledge at children channels such as Nickelodeon and focus less on the wrong doings of bad cartoon characters.
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