Songs of White Privilege and White Supremacy
We don’t have to “cancel” them all. Let’s just listen and learn.
9 min readAug 10, 2020
Songwriters are so misunderstood — especially around election time, and usually by Republican candidates. In 1984, Ronald Reagan tried to pitch Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and John Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” as patriotic anthems. Donald Trump attempted to do the same…
