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"Otherside of America" is a protest song [2] [3] [4] by American rapper Meek Mill. The song tackles racial inequality and racism in the United States. It was released on June 5, 2020, amid the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests against police brutality in the United States, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Sing Our Own Song; Sing Out March On; Skip a Rope; Slave New World; Slave to the Grind (song) Society's Child; Solid Rock (Goanna song) Some People Change (song) Somos El Mundo 25 Por Haiti; Song of the Free; Sound of da Police; South Africa (song) Southern Man (song) The Space Program (song) Spirit in the Sky (Keiino song) Stay Away (Elvis ...
"I'm Not Racist" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Joyner Lucas, released on November 28, 2017, by Atlantic Records. It features a heated discussion about race and society from the perspective of a white man and a black man. Lucas has said that the song's lyrics represent the uncomfortable race talk that people shy away from. [5]
The song borrows heavy inspiration from the early 19th-century song "Turkey in the Straw." It hinges on offensive stereotypes, namely that Black people all like watermelon. After a brief intro ...
The song comes from the 1946 film 'Song of the South,' which used racist tropes and painted a rosy picture of race relations in the antebellum South.
After the 1990s, the protest song found renewed popularity around the world after the turn of both the century and the "Third Millennium" as a result of the 9/11 attacks in America, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in the Middle East, with America's former president George W. Bush facing the majority of the criticism.
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The lyrics of "Southern Man" describe the racism towards blacks in the American South. In the song, Young tells the story of a white man (symbolically the entire white South) and how he mistreated his slaves. Young pleadingly asks when the South will make amends for the fortunes built through slavery when he sings: I saw cotton and I saw black,