Everybody By Logic Meaning

We choose the song Everybody by Logic because we feel that some of the lines directly relate to what we learned in the reconstruction unit. Logic grew up with a caucasian mother and an African American father. We believe that his identity struggle as a child is why his long everybody is so relatable to what we learned during the reconstruction unit. Specificity, we plan to relate this song to the black codes, convict leasing, and how those of mixed backgrounds are treated. To be considered a person in the United States you must be able to sue and be sued. The Black Codes state the same thing, along with a list of provisions that state “as to allow any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to rent or lease any lands or tenements except in incorporated cities or towns, in which places the corporate authorities shall control the same” (Black Codes). Based off what Logic says in Everybody, he just wants everyone to be equal, “Everybody talkin' 'bout race this, race that, Wish I could erase that, face facts” (Logic). This connects to how black people want to be treated equal and don’t want the past to affect how people treat them now.
People who had owned slaves before it became illegal wanted them again, but they did not want to pay a lot of money. This is how convect leasing came about. African Americans would be arrested, and then instead of staying in jail they would go and work. There was a rise in the number of African American men that were arrested after convict leasing became legal. “Hell of a long way from equal is how they treat us - Body of a builder with the mind of a fetus” (Logic). In this line, he is saying how they will never be worth more than what their body can do. No matter how educated African Americans are, it is always assumed that they are only good for manual labor. This line could also be related to the fact that African Americans still get arrested more than any other