24-Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth

At the very least, this is a change of pace. According to the blog I Killed The Darkness (ikilledthedarkness.blogspot.com), the 24-Carat Black was "composer and noted souse Dale Warren's attempt to document the plight of the inner city through song, spoken word, and judicious use of chimes."

The genre is funk, I guess, or soul (I honestly don't know the difference), and the lyrical focus is just as I Killed The Darkness says. This was recorded in the aftermath of the civil rights movement, and the lyrical tone reflects that. 

The music is actually quite enjoyable, as opposed to the awful noise of 16 Bitch Pile-up. My question is whether my mysterious house guest, Lewis Mint, is involved somehow in the ongoing struggle for civil rights, or is rather the kind of counter-cultural tourist that has become all too familiar these days... You know the type: A part-time Tarantino on his own private exploitation trip. Put more plainly, does Mint actually care about "the plight of the inner city", or does he just get off pretending he's some kind of post-racial super-liberal even though he's never actually met a person of another race. (Mint is white, as this post should make plain, and my brief experience with him leads me to think he falls into the latter category, however disappointing that may be.)