Mellencamp is stirring the pot. He is using the fact that he is a singer in a band to draw the media and feel like he is in the know
Yet another case of politics mixed in the music
A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters, he asks
St. Peter, "I have a question that's haunted me all of my days on earth.
Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?"
St. Peter said, "That's a question only God can answer." So the zebra went
off in search of God.
When he found Him, the zebra asked, "God, please - I must know. Am I white
with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?"
God simply replied "You are what you are."
The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him, "Well, did
God straighten out your query for you?"
The zebra looked puzzled.
"No sir, God simply said 'You are what you are.'" St. Peter smiled and said
to the zebra, "Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes."
The zebra asked St. Peter, "How do you know that for certain?"
"Because," said St. Peter, "If you were black with white stripes, God would
have said, "You is what you is."
If you laugh at this, Al Sharp ton & Jesse will be on your ass.