Ganguro

this has nothing to do with music.
it's all about perception and power.

As a black male (though sometime's i'd disagree with you on that) often times im very deeply saddened to see how far race relations have gone in this country. I dont fault white for slavery. Fuck man.. slavery was a good idea from a management pov. I dont fault blacks as a whole entirely for buying into sterotypes and being the "poor minority".. i fault everyone equally for satisfying their own self interest. I cannot speak for white america so i will not attempt to.. i can just speculate on what i've seen in my community.

I grew up in Gary,Indiana, and while it doesnt have the problems as a new york, houstin, or detroit has.. it's got it's reputation as being a very undesireable place to live.. no matter what race you are. What i say in my youth was a community full of excuses. "the white man holds us down" ,"the government is anti-black", "Oh we are oppressed". While some aspects of these things could be true.. you are a fool if you don't attempt to do anything about it. Complaining without action is useless, but a lot of people that can change things generally have their best interests in mind. I dont contribute this as being a "selfinsh minority issue" , but recognize it as human nature to be self preserving.

I feel that a lot of blacks, and i could even go out on a limb here and say a lot of minorities in general, are waiting for someone to sae them. Some great figure to rise from their ranks and lead them to financial and emotional prosperity. If people started acting in a way that could help them transcend the stigmas associated with their race, while not totally abandoning that aspect of themselves maybe things could change for the culture as a whole. Unfortunately for multiple reasons that task is damn near impossible to acheive in a westernized world.