Like it was stated before there could very much be a double meaning to the lyrics, I can see where the Civil Rights movement can be derived from the lyrics. When i look at the lyrics and i hear the song, I think its more talking about how we were being groomed to hate communism because of certain people (effigies) and we are just racing towards our immediate destruction, You have to look at the facts on this one, CCR was from the Bay area in California (Not the south), and this album was released in 1969 in the middle of the Vietnam war.
Like it was stated before there could very much be a double meaning to the lyrics, I can see where the Civil Rights movement can be derived from the lyrics. When i look at the lyrics and i hear the song, I think its more talking about how we were being groomed to hate communism because of certain people (effigies) and we are just racing towards our immediate destruction, You have to look at the facts on this one, CCR was from the Bay area in California (Not the south), and this album was released in 1969 in the middle of the Vietnam war.