This song talks about September 11th and how Will Smith has to explain what happened to his kids. He gets really upset because his kids keep asking him why. Than he realizes that he wants to know why? So than he goes on a screaming tangent about how society does all these things, and then he asks why do we do this to ourselves.
The main point of this song is to get us to think about how we do all these terrible things, and rarely ever wonder or ask why. We just do it without thinking about who we are really hurting. In this song Will Smith talks about bombs exploding and little kids having to inhale the fumes and see the effects of this because of war between countries. Than he also wonders why people get arrested when they are only trying to help their family. This song really overall reflects the values of our country in the year or so after September 11th when we all went around wondering why us? That’s why I think Will Smith came out with this song.
When I listen to this song I start to wonder how many things have I done that hurt other people and then later wonder why did I do this, and come up with an answer like “Well it seems like everybody does it so it will be okay.” However this is not right and I think this is the point that Will Smith is really trying to get at. That we should treat others with kindness and love, which as christians we call this the golden rule treat others the same way you want ot be treated. There’s another verse Matthew 19:19 “and You shall love your neighbor as yourself. This also shows that this song teaches us to love, respect, and love each other in a way that could stop all the injustice and violence that hurts or even kills innocent people everyday and just gets forgotten about because it happens so much. To me this song really opened my eyes about how sometimes we don’t notice when we aren’t following the golden rule when we should be.