However, this time he more clearly states his belief that they are designed, most simply put, to kill Black people. According to him, you can’t understand the Black ghetto unless you’ve actually lived there. And he goes on to conclude the verse by once again mentioning the police. However, he is someone who many African-Americans themselves may deem as being out of touch with the streets. Don is in fact the son of who Wikipedia described as “a prominent attorney”, so it’s not like he grew up in the ‘hood or anything.Īnd that’s the point that the rapper sets out to make. Don is a famous African-American news anchor affiliated with CNN.ĭon often speaks on Black issues. Pusha then goes on to lament the perception and portrayal of Black people in the eyes of the mainstream and more specifically major news organizations like FOX and CNN. And along those lines he mentions Don Lemon. The said incident was the controversial death of Freddie Gray in 2015 while he was in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department.Īnd when Pusha mentions ‘sending another to the FEDs’ after namedropping Gray, that is because such incidents, when they go viral as with this one, tend to end up being investigated by the federal government or what have you. And whereas T states that in Freddie’s death the law enforcement involved were found “not guilty”, in actuality the case never even went to trial. Well more specifically, this song is for the most part based on just one of those incidents. And he takes the traditional hip-hop approach to adopting such a disposition, by noting various instances or facts that buttress said argument. And that is what Pusha T implies at the beginning of the first verse, that ‘America needs a miracle’. In other words, institutional racism is so historically entrenched in American society that by the looks of things it will never go away. This song is one of two official songs for the State of Louisiana.For starters, it would appear that in the chorus the word “sunshine” is used unconventionally to rather point to a negative feeling. Said “sunshine” alludes to the notion of “the day”, which is presented as being “so long”. So more specifically, it is “the day” itself that has a negative connotation.Īnd “the day” serves as a metaphor for, most easily explained, the era of race-based discrimination against African-Americans in the United States. Copyright 19 by Peer International Corporation.
Written by former Louisiana State Governor Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell.
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