The song "Don't matter-Akon" reminds me of how most of the society didn’t want to see the African-Americans and white folks living together. However, some wanted to be equal with each other, they didn’t care about the skin tone or colour. The song talks about how no one wants to see “us” together and in this case, “us” are the blacks and white who don’t mind being together. The song also explains how men will chase down her and women will change down him, this can relate to how the citizens would chase any blacks having interactions with whites or any whites having interactions with blacks. The chorus explains how the singer and his partner want the right to do certain things, this can relate to the African-Americans because they have no rights to do anything and they also want rights for their race. Another verse of the song is that they want to fight for their rights and for people to accept them being together. This is also like the book because although the whites and blacks don’t admit wanting to be together, they want to fight. Along with the pretend drunk who pretends to be drunk in order to be with his black wife. So overall, the song has many verses about a guy and a girl together and no one liking that or wanting that so they reject the couple. In Maycomb, some whites and blacks don’t mind being together yet the rest of the society will not accept such things and would kick anyone who would do that. This is why I think this song can closely relate to “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
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