Let's Face It by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1997)

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Let’s Face It is a track from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’s fifth studio album. The American ska punk’s song was released on March 11, 1997 by Mercury Records and Big Rig Records and re-released on vinyl by Asbestos Records in 2013.

The album sold pretty well because of the success of its single "The Impression That I Get", reached position in number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [1]

Black Empowerment

In an interview with The Washington Post, the bandleader and songwriter, Dicky Barrett confronts hate “Be racist, be sexist, be bigots, be sure: We won’t stand for your hate.” “If you told me 20 years ago, that nothing will change and at some points you’re going to feel like it’s going to get worse, my head would have exploded. I would have said there’s no way.”

He said that the song was partly inspired by his childhood as a child of the civil rights era and a Boston resident as the city buses desegregated schools.

“I learned that different was great and that the diversity and individuality of other people was what made them special,” Barrett said. “I wanted to say we’re all human beings. . . . You’re not any better than anybody else for any reason.” [2]

Check the part of lyrics from Let's Face It about one's questioning the motivation of racial hatred:

Why so cut and dry

A simple concept missed

Give tolerance a try

This confusion still exists [3]

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