Indeed! Great song! That's probably got itself on the banned list as well for use of the term 'black skinned' which I'm sure some would say isn't the correct way to refer to people of recent African heritage. That's the weird thing about 'celebrating diversity': there's an extremely narrow (and...
You've probably nailed it. It was released in an era of racial segregation in America and of course apartheid in South Africa. The 1960s hippie view was that we should all break down the barriers between us and become 'humans' as opposed to all these different tribes, cultures, races, creeds...