Toby Keith Song that talks about Lynchin people

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I stole this from a blog that I read regularly...hmm

The Lyrics:

Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
said somebody’s been shot
somebody’s been abused
somebody blew up a building
somebody stole a car
somebody got away
somebody didn’t get to far yeah
they didn’t get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he’d done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see

That Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
And we’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing
whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
too much corruption and crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ‘em all to their maker and he’ll settle ‘em down
You can bet he’ll set ‘em down…

- Toby Keith sings on “Beer for My Horses”
Apparently there are dark skinned men with sagging jeans walkin around on the ‘gangsters’ part too.

[Sapphire]

I just watched the video... ugh, I hate country music!!!

Anyway, there are no dark skinned men in baggy jeans, unless you're referring to Willie Nelson or Toby Keith dressed up like a lady. LOL.

I'm not gonna pretend to understand what this is about, but they did kill white folks this way back in the day too... they just called it hanging, not lynching. And you actually had to have committed a crime (or be accused of a crime) other than just being black.

This might be a case of Black folks reading too much into things. Maybe not...

[Cambist]

Yeah, there were plenty of white folks strung up in Texas. That's how I saw it.

[Bunny Hop]

Ummm yeah I need for folks to watch the video. The only Black folks in it was a homeless man that the cops tried to question and maybe a Black cop....none of which was offensive. Everyone else was white and the song was about catching a serial killer. I need for us to stop playing the race card on everything.