| I've always read the entire lyric of "Carefully Taught" as Cable generalizing (correctly, I think) from his own upbringing to the universal. He isn't singing about any particular group, neither as the subjects of the racism nor as the objects of it; he's singing that ***everybody*** does this. So the "oddly made" bit isn't a slur on any particular ethnic group's eyes; it could be Asian people thinking European people's eyes are "oddly made." It doesn't matter. The point is that fear of "the other" is universal. |
