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."
It’s a White Thing
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