Bingowings said:
"A man is born, he’s a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans…(pun?)
You mean you think the lyric writer(s) actually meant genes? I think the lyric writer(s) used jeans because it rhymes with means.
They’ll have theirs, you’ll have yours, and I’ll have mine.
And together we’ll be fine!"
A rich man is born rich, a poor man is born poor. Let the rich have their riches and the poor have their poverty and it will all be okay.
You sure you’re not reading too much into the lyrics?
That the what the lyrics are saying. The show didn’t have a rich white man passing his wealth to the poor in a general act of altruism. He took on two specific poor children from Harlem.
He adopted those kids and treated them like they were his own sons. In one episode he tried to give them his last name, the only reason they didn’t take it was to preserve the last name of their biological father. I’ve watch many episodes of that show. He loved those two kids like a father loves his sons.
That in itself has unfortunate resonance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ha7TK13_0
I have never seen the Color Purple, so I don’t understand what you are referring to here.
