


They have a really distorted view of what the black race is about. You have the new Uncle Tom, the guy wagging the $200,000 watch and saying, … ‘Gimme the money, man, look what I got that you ain’t got … I’ll say whatever you want me to say, and when this (ends), I’ll just go back to whatever I’m doing, and I don’t care about the damage that I’ve done.’ Meanwhile, white kids in suburbs who buy these records find it entertaining if not comical half the time. Speaking to the Denver Post, he said: “She’s my age, and I asked her, ‘What’s the one thing that’s really disturbing to you?’ There was no question about it – it’s how this new rap music is really harmful to the black race.

Peaceful World was written by John Mellencamp, who later explained that he’d got the idea for the song from a conversation he’d had with a member of his backing band, Pat Peterson.
