Accidental Racist by Brad Paisley (2013)

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LL Cool J (left) and Brad Paisley backstage during the 48th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards Sunday in Las Vegas.

Accidental Racist is a song by American country artist Brad Paisley, which generated controversy as discussing racism, particularly the song message showing Southern pride, including the Confederate flag. The song which features LL Cool J, is from Paisley’s ninth studio album, Wheelhouse (2013), written by Paisley, LL Cool J, and Lee Thomas Miller. [1]

Key Lyrics

To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main

I hope you understand

When I put on that T-shirt, the only thing I meant to say

Is I'm a Skynyrd fan

The red flag on my chest somehow is

Like the elephant in the corner of the south

And I just walked him right in the room

Just a proud rebel son with an ol' can of worms

Lookin' like I got a lot to learn, but from my point of view

I'm just a white man coming to you from the Southland

Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be

I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done

And it ain't like you and me can re-write history

Our generation didn't start this nation

We're still picking up the pieces, walking on eggshells, fighting over yesterday

And caught between Southern pride and Southern blame

They called it Reconstruction, fixed the buildings, dried some tears

We're still siftin' through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years

I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin

But it ain't like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin [2]

Controversy

Black Empowerment

References

  1. Accidental Racist. wikipedia.org. Retrieved January 27, 2021
  2. Brad Paisley Accidental Racist. genius.com. Retrieved January 27, 2021