So, I’ll be the first to admit that I was five when Graceland first came out, so I probably don’t quite have the proper perspective on this, but I’ve never understood that.

I mean, I get the boycott bit. I get the protesting apartheid bit. I’m all for that idea. But getting mad at Paul Simon for going in and finding black South African artists and exposing them to the larger world seems a lot like sneering at white protesters who went to the South to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

So, I guess I just see this as my opportunity to ask, “Why did anyone do that?”