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.

This speaks to the fact that in 2007, in the US, Blacks are still targeted because of their race and although the song makes no direct reference to the incidents, the song is still appropriate at this time.

Producer and songwriter Irvin Lee, comments, "First off, we have no self-hatred issues. The purpose of this song is not to say that Blacks should want to be white. Rather, the intent is to make people think and converse about the continuous mistreatment of Blacks in this country."

He continues, "The song portrays the common frustration that many African Americans have when it comes to injustice. As mind-blowing and as absurd as it sounds, in the world that we live in, you have to entertain the concept of being white in order to experience true equality. So, our song is not controversial; the concept of a person having to be white to be treated right is controversial. When we wrote this song, we knew the phrase 'I Wish I Was White' would stir up emotions, and this was intentional to get people to open some new doors of communication."

After hearing the song, some will indeed conclude that the lyrics in the song suggest that Watty has self-hatred issues. Some will view him as hopeless and desperate while some will see him as a man who cannot see that the problem is not his blackness, but his oppressors. Yet many will see it as an effort to draw much needed attention to the racial inequality that continues to exist in our society.

Whatever direction the discussion goes, it will all come back to one thing; Who are we? And how have we come to this place in time and space? Why are we still being forced to have these discussions surrounding race? Ultimately, what will be the outcome and how will it be resolved, if at all?

Singer Allen Watty and producer Irvin Lee are doing what they do best - pricking the sensibilities of the American people. And with this tune, they are certain to prick the sensibilities of the Black community.