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If you want a topical comparison to a racist view narrowed down to the topic of music, look up Henry Ford's diatribes on the subject of jazz. Of course, he had so little cognizance of the creative ability of independent black Americans that he blames the scourge on the manipulative mechanisms of the Jews, but nevertheless, there it is - a view that suggests that black culture is foul, deviant and destructive. It's not a tradition that I would be proud to perpetuate.
And I have to say, for someone who is apparently so enamored of electronic music forms, I am shocked at little you appreciate the debt those forms owe to rap and hip-hop. I mean, jesus, didn't you just start a thread recently saying how much you like early Prodigy? I tend to think that if most of the musicians you appreciate as artists were to come here and see this thread of yours, you'd be the subject of some pretty scathing public humiliation. Learn your history.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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