July 20, 2014, by Briana
Lenny Kravitz, Grammy award winner, decided to step outside of his comfort zone in 2011 when he wrote the song “Black and White America”. As a rock star, Kravitz would normally write strictly rock songs, but he decided to take a different approach with this one by combining different genres. Kravitz told sources that this piece was written after he observed a documentary he found one night while flipping through the television. This documentary was about a group of Americans that weren’t in agreement with how the United States was being run. They were not fond of President Barack Obama and they were not supportive of equality between different races. They wished for America to be how it was years ago.
Lenny grew up with interracial parents, so he wanted people to understand his viewpoint and how he lived. He wanted people to understand that this isn’t just America, its black and white America, no matter where you go. The lyrics of this song are trying to help people understand that we are all one, as people. We may have different color skin, but that does not make us any better than the next person.
Below are the lyrics of the song.
"Black And White America"
Martin Luther King, he had a vision
And that's a fact
He died so we could see that was his mission
So don't look back
There is no division, don't you understand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
Rob from Always on the run is bad bad bad
In nineteen sixty three my father married
A black woman
And when they walked the street they were in danger
Look what you've done
But they just kept on walking forward hand in hand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
We've waited so long
We've waited so long
There is no division, don't you understand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
Oh, yeah
Black and white America
Gonna keep moving forward, oh
Blow Harold !
Hello, WLGI
I have left comments before on how great your stations programming is, I would like to make a request at this time to hear an instramental song by the Fattbuger "everybody wants to rule the world"
Please,
Respectfully Yours,
George Harris
gtharris@hughes.net
Spot on! That's the kind of music the world needs to hear more of. Way to go, guys, way to go!
Oh, and I heard you playing some South African music in the weee hours of the morning. That's great! Just disperse it more during the light of day, and move further up the continent to sample more talent from the Mother Continent, where, as scientists have now proven convincingly through DNA findings, the entire body of humankind first set foot in. Every tribe, nation and group of whatever formation, bears its origins from there.
Thozi.
I heard Grant Hindin Miller singing a few moments ago! That’s one of my favorite Bahá’í artists, who hails from New Zealand. I think he’s unique in his rendition of his own compositions. Hey! That’s the way to go, guys! You are just unique in the whole wide world! Nobody can touch you! Just keep on keeping on.