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Dec 02
2007
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‘Sometimes I Wish Was White’Posted by Eddy Edwards in society, culture, commentary |
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Lyrics: "Sometimes I feel, I wish I was white, so I could feel, just how it feels to be treated right. I'm not ashamed of me. Just one time, I want to see, how it feels to be treated equally."
Allen Watty is best known as the singer of the Hurricane Song, (about the treatment of Blacks in Hurricane Katrina) which won rave national reviews from ABC News, MSNBC.com, and CNN.
Now, he's back with another tune called Sometimes I Wish I Was White. In the song, Watty reveals that he's not at all ashamed of being Black – but that he has learned that you have to be white to be treated right.
With racial tensions already rising from Jena-6 – a recent incident involving a group of six black teenagers who were initially charged with attempted murder for beating a white teenager at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana and the six white persons in West Virginia who kidnapped, repeatedly raped and tortured a black 20 year-old woman for a week, it seems fitting that Independent singer Allen Watty would penned such a song.







