Toby Keith - Advocate of lynching?

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

The title song? What lyrics suggest that?

I don't know what song and I have no desire to see the movie. I keep hearing Kevin and Bean talk about some song from the movie (maybe it's by MIA) that supposedly promotes terrorism with lyrics about blowing up buses.

But surely you can see how a song idealizing a time when people where punished by hanging them from trees could be - with benefit of doubt here - misconstrued?

No, really I can't. I think people are reading way to much into this song. It's a story being told from father to son then grandfather to son. They talk about how justice was done in their day, how criminals are getting away with so much these days and the law needs to straighten up and start doing better. No where does it say go out and hang your [black] neighbor. Back in the day, that is what was done. Not go do it now. History is history. We're lucky that CA doesn't have such a turbulent or racially charged history like states in the South.