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Originally Posted by cybermike
Whether you guys admit it or not, Rap/Hip Hop IS recognized as black culture. It doesn't matter where it originated or that there's white rappers or tons of white fans of the genre.
The problem is that many of the black people that become famous are just a few steps out of the ghetto. They're ignorant kids that hang out with their ignorant ghetto friends and get into trouble instead of seeing ignorant ghetto kid gets in trouble they see "Rich black person gets in trouble" and racist America just says yeah, even rich black people are nothing but trouble.
I think racism is the same as always. In the past there were many misinformed people and it was easy to stay misinformed. I think now we're just left with ignorant people that deny that we're the same and people that just have to focus their hate somewhere. People are ignorant!
I like saying ignorant. With my southern drawl, It sounds like ignert.
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Whether some people think rap IS black culture is irrelevant, and it is about as representative of actual black culture as incest is of Southern culture. I mean, undeniably people make jokes about incest and Southerners. Would it be fair to treat that as representative of southerners as a whole? Or, to pick a less extreme example, would it be fair to take racist country songs of the 40s and 50s as accurate representations of the entire Southern culture?
Undeniably rap and hip hop is part of black culture, the problem is taking a relatively small part of rap (gangsta rap - which is specially popular with whites) and take it as a representation of the entire black culture, especially with the intent to claim that racism today is somehow "less prejudiced"