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Originally Posted by evollove
You're so hot, I want you back,
Feel like Ghandi just as he got whacked.
Just come back to me, okay?
Don't say our love is dead like MLK.
You don't know what you're doing to me.
Bitch, you're worse than slavery.
But I want you back, you're so hot
Don't be mean like that guy Pol Pot.
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Bahahahahaa ok yeah point made. It's a false equivalence. Separating two people is not the same as apartheid, even if it is, technically, a form of segregation. I get you. I just think it works as a lyric and is it as dumb as those examples you came up with.
Also I've decided that as a middle class white man with a college education, I kind of have no right to judge what "Strange Fruit" means to black people. "Strange Fruit" belongs to black Americans. I may not find the juxtaposition entirely tasteful, but I don't think it matter much whether I find it tasteful or not, and I don't think I have much of a right to criticize how the lyrics are reinterpreted by a black man.
Dats just me tho.