If you want to prove you are not racists stop ignoring the obvious racists on your side
Start ripping their ho hoes out of their pants and calling the police on their shop lifting
Just don’t display the racist flags and spew hate on your fellow Americans
Certain minorities may not agree,
but I think that there's a big difference between racists who don't believe in equal opportunity and equal status under the law
and people like myself who can't identify with Afro-centric things like Hip Hop, the NBA, made up Ebonic kids' names that sound sorta African, and Juneteenth.
As I said, there are several contributors to this forum who might strongly disagree with that,
and they don't seem to recognize who is their real enemy and who isn't and doesn't want to be.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
evince while starting this thread:
Imprecise. If my calling the police at that time would get the attention of the murderer and I too got killed should I act? Clearly, that doesn't make me the equivalent of racist to not act, even if I later call the police when it's safe to do so.
Same thing. Just because I witness a racist act doesn't mean I should immediately take action if that action is going to cause more harm than good.When you see racism and just walk past as if there is no racism
You are now arguing that I should be willing to become a martyr and anything less makes me a heretic. It's the sort of thinking ISIS used with Islam. It's a variant of religious bigotry at it's worst.You can be morally charged as a racist
Yes, my definition matters. You are making the argument of Humpty Dumpty...Your single definition designed to clear you of your racism doesn’t matter
When words become meaningless, or are twisted to mean anything, they no longer have meaning. You are doing that with the word 'racist.'
Now you're arguing that the mob should rule. Get your pitchforks and torches people!SOCIETY and its consensus on your racism does matter
You don’t understand it because you don’t know anyone personally
You also don’t know much about certain cultural experiences all over the world
You have to know people and have things conveyed to you on a human level to understand the how’s and why’s to feel an understanding and connection to those social norms
Hip hop is one of my least favorite types of music
Why?
No instruments in its roots
Why?
Lack of ability to buy instruments and pay for things like new strings and bows and reeds
The beats are cool at times
The rapping replaces the singing voice
That just lets me down
But for me it’s more by like poetry set to beats
I crave strings, horns, drums
Music makes me alive
Voices singing
Bob Dillion was a horrible guitarist and had a horrible voice
I can’t listen to too much of it
I love other people singing his great poetry
He was never destined to have a great voice
Or play guitar well
But he had the poetry and beat
You don’t have to love everything about a culture
To respect those who do
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