dynamiteReady wrote:I'll keep an eye out, but I can't get into those beats.
Facewon wrote:Black People Are Cowards Tell us what you really think, mate. In all seriousness though, interesting read. Explicitly about the Don Sterling sitcho, but Hip Hop is certainly in the firing line. I post it here because it sits nicely alongside: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America, Part II Quest obviously takes a softer line, but it's still well worth a read.
Is getting paid an excuse for everything? It’s an excuse for looking the other way when innocent people are killed. It’s an excuse for supporting racism by trying to win a championship for an openly racist owner.
dynamiteReady wrote:. What do you see in that article beyond the Clippers thing, really?
On December 5, 1955, to the amused annoyance of the white citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, an obscure young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., called a city-wide Negro boycott of its segregated bus system. To their consternation, however, it was almost 100 percent successful; it lasted for 381 days and nearly bankrupted the bus line. When King's home was bombed during the siege, thousands of enraged Negroes were ready to riot, but the soft-spoken clergyman prevailed on them to channel their anger into nonviolent protest—and became world-renowned as a champion of Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance. Within a year the Supreme Court had ruled Jim Crow seating unlawful on Montgomery's buses, and King found himself, at 27, on the front lines of a nonviolent Negro revolution against racial injustice.
This is fucking abhorrent.The lib government out here is trying to ban organised boycotts of businesses.
Facewon wrote:The glorification of crime and a destructive lifestyle critique of hip hop isn't actually easy to dismiss.
dynamiteReady wrote:But seriously, the cowardice thing, referencing blacks selling other blacks into slavery? What an idiot. Lets take that lens and apply it to an examination of the Jewish community during the Holocaust. Or the French at the turn of the 18th century, or any other similar examples of 'industrialized' subjugation.
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