This song has a focus on the coping mechanisms oppressed and disenfranchised groups often use to survive in modern society. Jesus Walks discusses Black history and echoes African American slave songs with its gospel-style choir but also references modern society and the challenges African Americans and other oppressed groups continue to face. It addresses discrimination at the hands of law enforcement and the criminal justice system as well as the results of poverty such as dependency on the welfare system, the selling of illegal drugs and violent crime.
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