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Old 10-13-2009, 01:22 PM   #45 (permalink)
Shauk
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I'm convinced that it's indicative based on the fact that if you listen to a white rapper, he'll tell you of his struggles to be accepted as an artist in the genre simply because he's a white man in a culture that a black man would claim as his own. Because of the prevalence of the "N word" in the lyrics of many tracks, be it used with vulgar intent or as a show of solidarity, it ultimately is a point of contention. Some would claim the word, some would banish it's use. In either camp, despite the superlative, it still has something to do with black culture.

Despite my "poor" fleshing out of the connection, I'm sure you could connect the dots on your own if you tried.

I'm just saying it's a goddamn shame, it's sad, that a racist person today, in this day and age, can pick a few gansta rap tracks, a few episodes of COPS, and build himself a collection of material generated by black culture to help fuel his irrational hatred of the race.

Any firefighter will tell you, the best way to put out the fires are to deprive it of fuel, cut off it's source of life. oxygen or raw material to burn. Yet the time line is rife with fuel to draw that connection if you try. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, just that it exists.

in the early days, racists were just stupid and had no material to draw upon to paint a real bad example of the race, now they're just easily confused with white people who disagree misogynistic, violent music and it's prominence in black culture. They could be confused with an actual racist.

Obviously proven by the fact that you're "in no way calling me a racist... yet"

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