New Slaves Song Meaning

In the song the song New Slaves By Kanye West produced in the year 2013 and the producers of this song are by Kanye West, Ben Bronfman, Mike Dean, Travis Scott, Noah Goldstein, Sham Joseph and Che Pope. The song New Slaves has a lot to do with racism, slavery, segregation, and materialism. One of the reasons that Kanye West made this song about this powerful topic is because he thinks that there is still in this day a lot of racism, and maybe from him making this song people would be able to hear it and maybe see how people feel. Another reason, why Kanye West made this song is because in the intro of the song he says,” My momma was raised in the era when clean water was only served to the fairer skin.” The definition of the intro is his describing when his mother was growing up she was growing up in the era when all the racism was very bad.
Discrimination was a very huge problem in the era when racism was very bad. Racism wasn’t only on the african american people it was also on the Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans,and the European Americans. One of Kanye West’s biggest misunderstanding was when he was live television and he said,” George Bush doesn't care about black people.” What Kanye West was referring to his arrogant comment was because one of Kanye’s biggest fears is the U.S. burgeoning the private prison system. The Lines: “Meanwhile the DEA teamed up with the CCA. This is also one of the lyrics from the song New Slaves from Kanye West, he is referring to the government only locking up the African American, which Kanye refers it to, “they tryn’a make the new slaves.” And also in the era of when racism has very bad, this exact thing would happen to the African American