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Shauk, I have spent the last hour typing a topical reply to what you have laid ground to in the thread, but I'm offering this one first:
Perhaps you could provide a more solid basis on "racist ideals in whichever decade" by not citing music as one of them. Music is inherently a mutable opus, from which many inspirations stem. In America, well, the progression morphed from Bebop to Jazz to Rock n' Roll, to Hip-Hop, with various genres splitting and giving birth to new ones along the way.
I don't know if a majority of people in the Fifties thought the way you are offering, but I don't doubt it was a single person, or a single community, town, state, etc. It was ingrained from our parents and those before us in the times in we absorbed the prevailing thoughts of those around us. But is the example you provided for continued racism today solely derived from music lyrics and videos, or is the entire culture of Hip-Hop in media, films, and sports?
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