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Minor Threat's song " Guilty of Being White " led to some accusations of racism, but MacKaye has strongly denied such intentions and said that some listeners misinterpreted his words.

He claims that his experiences attending Wilson High School, whose student population was 70 percent black, inspired the song.

There, many students bullied MacKaye and his friends.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

" In an interview, MacKaye stated that he was offended that some perceived racist overtones in the lyrics, saying, " To me, at the time and now, it seemed clear it's an anti-racist song.

Of course, it didn't occur to me at the time I wrote it that anybody outside of my twenty or thirty friends who I was singing to would ever have to actually ponder the lyrics or even consider them.