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Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
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Racist?
[Read the article: The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I might be in the minority here, but I don't think its all that racist. Sure, there might be a segment of the population who truly beleives that Obama being elected president will mean the end of the world as we know it, where white becomes black and black becomes white and this does play into that to a certain extent.
But I when I read the button, it didn't induce any real sort of outrage in me. To me, racism has an element of disrespect to it, and I don't find this necessarily disrespectful. Just really stupid.
It's not like the baby mamma chyron or that anchor who characterized the Obama's giving each other dap (or Shake and Bake from Talladega Nights) as the terrorist fist jab, two things I found really offensive, disrespectful, and patently racist.
People are going to make stupid comments about Obama because he's black. I'm sure the majority of jokes about him have to do with the fact that he is a black man running for president. Some of them will be offensive, some of them will be stupid, and some of them will be racist enough that I will want to punch the joke teller in the face, and maybe some of the will actually be funny.
Hopefully, sometime in Obama's first term, there will be a day when the rest of the country knows Obama well enough, and he'll have a choking on pork rinds moment like Bush Jr., a McDonald's obession like Clinton, or my favorite, vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister moment like Bush, Sr. so we can make fun of him for just being a human being and doing embarrassing things and not because he's black.
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I guess I can see your point, Juliebird
[Read the article: The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The button doesn't play on my fears of the Black man, since I don't have fears of the black man, being that I'm a black woman, So I guess it's a white thing, I wouldn't understand. (just kidding) Seriously, I don't think this button is going to turn more white racists against Obama. They already got the fear; they don't need a button to realize it.
The truth is that I could see some two-bit black comic making a joke about renaming the White House the Black house. Or doing a whole routine about what it's gonna be like having a sister in the White House that will be stereotypical and pretty eye-roll inducing as well. I know, I know, it's okay when we black folks do it, but I think as black people with a chance to finally have a person of color in the white house, we better grow a pair and save our outrage for things that are truly disrespectful.
Maybe that's why my gut just gave a, Hard dee fucking har at this "clever" little button. The C.U.N.T. shirt or pin, however, I found that really offensive. Now if they come out with some N.I.G.G.E.R. or any particular-slur button, I'll get all outraged. But I doubt they'll do that, because they don't want an epidemic of white people who can't shit because they have a buttons shoved up their ass. The monkey shirt goes in that category.
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Poco
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Until you've listened to all hip-hop, underground and mainstream, or at least 75% of it, from its beginning to today, please don't feel you can speak to the contribution, good or ill, hip hop has made to American music or to music throughout the world for that matter.
I understand YOU don't like Hip Hop. That is your perogative, but not all of it is profane or misogynistic or focused on money. But your obviously an expert, so I suppose you know better than I do.
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CaptCriss
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why should and black person be embarrassed at what another American person does, just because they happen to also be black?
When I was a kid, I used to get all upset when another member of my race would act all ignorant, but then I realized, does your average white person feel racial embarrassment when one of their kids shoots up a school? Or one of their men gets caught raping and killing little kids? Or one of their women goes and drowns her kids and gets off because she is supposedly crazy? Do you, Captcris? Of course not, because you get to be an individual who makes individual choices about their life. Whereas, I'm just a negro, who lives and falls by the actions of other negroes.
Besides, its not like black folks own the multi-million dollar conglomerates who own the labels. I bet if you asked most black people (of all ages) what type of music they listen to, it would be Pop/R&B. Mariah Carey and Alicia Keyes and god forbid, R. Kelley, Usher, etc. And down here in the south, Gospel.
Hip Hop has never been as popular with black people as the mainstream media would like to everyone to think.
I'm pretty much stuck in the late 90s when it comes to Hip Hop, however. I don't even undertstand the new stuff. I guess I'm getting old.
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Sorry about the typos
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hopefully my post makes sense! I just re-read it. It just pisses me off when people make stupid comments.