NEMD Metal Up Your Ass! The MetalHeads Thread v.VIVIVI

Not metal technically but oh well.



I'm sorry
For something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white

Oh, I'm sorry
For something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white

I'm a convict (Guilty!)
Of a racist crime (Guilty!)
I've only served (Guilty!)
Nineteen years of my time

I'm sorry
For something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white

In songwriter Ian MacKaye’s high school, located in Washington DC, African Americans used to blame him and other Caucasians (who were the minority in DC schools) of being guilty for the slavery in America. For Ian, however, the past has nothing to do with the present regardless of whether he is racist or not. The song reflects the frustration he felt for being blamed for a role in human slavery of which he was not a part.

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Minor Threat – Guilty of Being White

In songwriter Ian MacKaye’s high school, located in Washington DC, African Americans used to blame him and other Caucasians (who were the minority in DC schools) of being guilty
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