“The skin game is still around, but you can’t keep a good man down”

“The Skin Game,” a rare B-side from Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 album, analyzes what Black people must endure to simply live. “It’s about this race issue that we have, playing the skin game,” she told MTV in 2018. “You have to be very careful, and know how to play it to get through on a daily basis.”

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