I've noticed that since the death of the recorded music industry, there has been a revisionist historical folk music revival.
In short, untalented people who never learned how to play more than three chords or play faster than 60 BPM and are only capable of performing melodies vocally have begun filling our ears with their garbage en masse, and then proclaiming that it's not about the the music at all, but social issues.
This could not be more shit.
For those of you who were lucky enough to grow up with freedom from religion, what this boils down to is now secular musicians are doing what horrible Christian musicians have been doing for years; making shitty music and claiming that listening to that music is a way of getting in tune with something greater than yourself... you know, as opposed to listening to music that you actually like.
You see, because if you're too ignorant to know the difference between a leech of a human being attaching themself to a famous charity distract attention from the core issue and direct it towards themselves and someone who's music is good enough to stand on it's own, you're probably also dumb enough to think you're doing something positive by supporting this garbage.
CHILDREN WITH CANCER NEED MEDICINE, NOT MUSIC. THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF SANDAL FOOTED HIPPY BULLSHIT PROTEST SONGS THAN CAN REPLACE EDUCATION AND EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION.
There is no greater scum than those that would twist the suffering of others into their own fame and fortune.
If you want to help someone with cancer, or a victim or violence or sexual abuse, FIND SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO IS SUFFERING AND HELP THEM IN PERSON.
Otherwise, you're just trying to buy and sell morality like a storefront preacher, and you don't even have a concept of what a decent human being is, let alone the capability to become one.
This is a song about death. It's on mandolin.
Hate is the first step to all solutions.
You will not end bigotry until you learn to hate it.