Dear Mr. President

Song: Dear Mr. President by P!nk

Primary Focus: Inequality/Government (how inequality is brought on by the government)


P!nk's song 'Dear Mr. President' was a message out to George Bush when he was still in office. In the song she criticizes Bush for not doing anything to help the people in need in our country. She sings "How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?" She's asking how he can live with himself while so many people are suffering. She touches on inequality of rights when she sings "What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away? And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?" She's talking about how he denies gay rights so if one of his daughter turned out to be gay how could he possibly hate her and take her rights away for that? She also criticizes how his job is not 'hard work' and how the people who are suffering to star alive are the ones actually going through 'hard work' when she sings the lines "Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box"
The whole song is very powerful and critical. It really says a lot about how so much of inequality is brought on by government disapproval, prohibition, or lack of effort. Prejudice is brought on by the people, but inequality is essentially brought on by what the government allows. The future of how long inequality will persist depends a lot on how much our government can evolve, and mature beyond the prejudice of it's citizens. They have to set the example for its citizens to follow, rather than waiting for the people to learn for themselves.