It’s a White Thing

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  Posted By: hrob27 @ 10/14/2008 11:37:41 AM

  There has always been a fascination by whites with black America's suffering: wanting to hear the story, yet unwilling except for a few to actually change the situation. Thank God, those few whites who were willing to work with blacks to enable a lasting change were some of the nation's greatest leaders: the Kennedy brothers readily come to mind. Yet the desire to hear of the coninued suffering exists. My guess is that because they may feel a sense of guilt about their extra degree of racially based priviledge, some whites feel that if they at least hear black people make their case for equality through music, that will somehow make everything all right. Not exactly. But at the same time, there is a chance for black people to become individually famous and wealthy by allowing whites to wallow in that sense of guilt, so the phenomenon is ultimately self-perpetuating. As Too Short aptly put it: "get in where you fit in."

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  Posted By: Dunkadelic University @ 02/20/2008 3:05:01 AM

  The basketball and hip-hop culture fusion of the past 24 years that is now being called The "Dunkadelic-Era" In America, 1984-Present has had such an impact on music, fashion, and style that most kids black and white want to emulate both the players and rappers. It's all about being cool and getting noticed. When a kid personify's Allen Iverson and Tupac, who are in some-ways one in the same he saying that I do what I want to do. Just as Iverson does on the court and Tupac with his lyrics. The "Dunkadelic-Era" will be celebrating it's 25th Anniversary during the year 2009. The era has grown to historical levels in America.

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  Posted By: shah mat @ 02/19/2008 11:54:43 AM

  Q. Why would a white audience want 'their' rappers to personify thugs,dangerous woman beaters who do drugs and carry guns? Isn't that somewhat like what the white Southerners during the post-civil war period of Americas history used to do in visually depicting the character of the newly freed (loosely speaking) African male? Interesting. I guess history does have a way of repeating itself