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203810, We good - I agree with all of this.
Posted by soulfunk, Thu Aug-25-16 12:10 PM
>Your initial response read: "If a white singer had an
>unreleased song from 25 years ago and on it they were saying
>all kinds of racist stuff and using the N word..."
>
>So you did reference the time period of said hypothetical
>song.

I feel you. It wasn't my intent to have it be directly the same time period, I just meant that the song was uncovered 25 years later. But the way I typed it I see what you mean.

>Word. I never said that they shouldn't apologize. But there's
>some nuance to that as well:
>
>Unless prompted, why would Tribe open up that can of worms ?
>Seems kind of unnecessary. Were the group members to be ASKED
>about it by an interviewer or something, and ignore or
>inappropriately answer the question, that'd be one thing. But
>to expect the group to just randomly dig up a hardly-known 25
>year old song and self-snitch and apologize seems like kind of
>a ridiculous request for anyone to make, gay community or
>not.

Yep, I agree. I don't blame them for not bringing up an unreleased song. But yeah - this is something that should be asked to them directly to give them a chance to respond.