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Thx Latoya & ampha. “Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with “keeping it real” are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive and violently masochistic behavior.”
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“That’s right – a bunch of us (Poppa Large, Instant Yang, Henri and Daddy in a Strange Land) got together to launch the first Rice Daddies Podcast.”
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“Scholarships, new programs and recruitment have attracted dozens of whites to schools such as South Carolina State University, where they account for around 4 percent of the student body…The school has a minority affairs office for white students”
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Thx Tereza. “In 1995, 58% said they favored affirmative action programs designed to help blacks, women, and other minorities get better jobs. That percentage has risen steadily since, and stands at 70% in the current poll.”
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Thx Geraly. “What [Pat Buchanan] was talking about was his belief that people of color are inherently inferior and unable to perform educationally, so they need his protection in order to keep the social status quo.”
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“Many diversity trainers don’t push people to challenge their own racist beliefs. Instead, the seminars teach people to be more aware of the non-verbal cues (the fancy word is “microinequities”) they send out that may tip others off to their racism.
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merq wrote:
RE: Hip-Hop Article
TooSense did a fantastic job breaking this mess of an article down.
http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/05/here-we-go-again.html
Posted 30 May 2007 at 6:42 am ¶
eric daniels wrote:
I was reading the article in the Washington Post
and it never seems to amaze me that outsiders equate a musical genre with Black Culture. I think this a revenge piece based on Imus so now black culture will critqued as street or pathological, Black People can never win in the eyes of the majority society.
This argument Williams makes can be flipped to white culture’s addiction to Heavy Metal culture with it’s emphasis on Satan , violence
and sexism and it’s actions like Columbine
and other school shootings where those white
males were inspired to shoot other people and let’s not forget video games in this argument.
Williams and other white commentators and their black defenders are playing with fire with this assertion that middle- class blacks and
by extension Black Culture is troubled Because
Kool Herc set up a sound system in the South Bronx. African- Americans don’t have to embrace a European value system to be American.
Posted 30 May 2007 at 4:42 pm ¶
Myra wrote:
While you won’t find me defending hip-hop…hate alot of it…this article is a mess, and Merq is right. Why is the Washington Post reaching out to this person to pen this? Please check his lightweight bio. Newspaper editors love inflammatory comments and not a rationale breakdown of real concerns in the African-American community. Yes, misogynist lyrics are awful. The imagery in the videos are appaling. But, hip hop is a symptom, and not the problem. The problematic issues in the black community are deeper than mere hip hop, and I hate the idea (from someone I assume is a black person) that hip hop represents my culture. UGH! Let’s talk wage stagnation and educational apartheid. And, yes, we do need to look within, as well.
Posted 30 May 2007 at 11:54 pm ¶