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Hold up, I think I mistated what I was trying to say with that one. I know that white people stole music and culture from blacks with virtually every music form such as rock, blues, and jazz. That is a fact and I would be naive if I disagreed. But what I meant was that they would have (and did) done the same with any music regardless of what genre it was. This culture theft was not an isolated incident. But it was more to capitalize off of the success than to join in the appreciation. If whites truly had respect for what was being created, they would have respected the people who were doing it. I am saying that after the cultural revolution of the 60's and the civil rights movement, I see that respect versus simply the goal of capitalizing off of music. In the fifties, kids who listened to Elvis or whatever other popular white rock musicians were around could still be a very racist and ignorant person and still fit in to mainstream america. Find me a KKK member who listens to hip-hop, but hates blacks, and listens only to em, and bubba sparxx, AND fits into mainstream america. Dude doesn't exist because mainstream doesnt want him to. And despite all of negative aspects of our society, and believe me there are many, I see this as a positive change. And that was all I was trying to get at. I don't see the point of feeling disapointed because a rap group raps with a white guy. The basic point of why racism is so stupid is something that we are now teaching our kids by the time they are in first grade. We are all different, and thats ok. Despite the fact that what has resulted from hundreds of years of discrimination and oppression towards African Americans is still very evident in todays society, I think that many problems would be resolved if everybody just realized that point. No sep. 11, NO holocaust, no slavery.
It is a fact that things need to change everywhere in the world if we dont want to blow ourselves out of the universe in the next 1000 years. But nothing is going to get solved if people still place emphasis on race. Im white, so what? I am completely aware of what people who share my same skin pigment are responsible for. And in all sincere honesty, if there was anything that I could do to change what has happened in the past that my people have done, I would do it. But the fact remains, you cannot change history. You cannot go back, thats sort of our fatal error. We are all going to make mistakes sometime in life and theres not shit we can do to change that. Some mistakes only lead to bigger mistakes and that what happens. Its not an excuse but it is what happens. Hate happens for a variety of reasons. Ignorance, anger, lust, envy, etc... but what happens as a result is much more severe than what causes it. We cannot change history but we can learn from it. And I think that the most valuable lesson it can teach us is that if we dont accept eachother, none of this bullshit will end, it will just come around in a different way.
Now that I have said way more than I planned on... Im out.
Peace.
"How ignorance is in the breath as innocence" - Ceelo
If America is majority white, then the prisons another country like James Baldwin" - Kweli
"Try not to say shoot around my daughter, she already know the blast"
-Common
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