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Topic subjectall you've done is call her a coon without much merit
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12722393, all you've done is call her a coon without much merit
Posted by atruhead, Mon Feb-09-15 02:09 PM
>2) Characterizing her based on being from Houston is an
>ignorant as assuming someone
>knows Kung Fu because they're Asian.

I characterized her as being from Houston because she does chopped and screwed effects in her music from time to time plus talks with a drawl to represent her home town, and I have no other clue what you could have meant by cooning.

>3) I already said I never said she had to make songs about
>revolution... the point is she
>wants to be viewed in that light, but wants to do it on the
>strength of everything opposite.

she's a black pop star probably impacted by the movie Selma

>If she wanna be a pop star singing about mindless bullshit,
>fine. Go do that and let
>Ledisi have her moment.

you limiting how she should express her blackness is troubling.