 Frank Guan of Vulture commented, "All Sade songs are socially engaged at some level, but of the ones that directly reference politics, this is one of the best.Instead of telling the story of a black family trapped by layoffs, poverty, unemployment, and hatred from the third-person, Sade locates herself within its daughter as a first-person narrator.Her intimation that a society that refuses to support its least fortunate members will end in ruin for all doesn't come off as a sermon, but an experience deeply lived.