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In songwriter Ian MacKaye’s high school, located in Washington DC, African Americans used to blame him and other Caucasians (who were the minority in DC schools) of being guilty for the slavery in America. For Ian, however, the past has nothing to do with the present regardless of whether he is raci...
[Verse]
I'm sorry for something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody, but I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
[Chorus]
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
[Verse]
Oh, I'm sorry for something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody, but I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
[Chorus]
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
[Bridge]
I'm a convict (Guilty)
Of a racist crime (Guilty)
I've only served (Guilty)
Nineteen years of my time
[Verse]
I'm sorry for something that I didn't do
Lynched somebody, but I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
[Chorus]
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of Being White was written by Minor Threat.
Guilty of Being White was produced by Minor Threat & Skip Groff.