Black Lives Matter? Eh?

[denilson200]

I think " RAP " has a lot to do with peoples negative attitude towards black people.

Most rap music purchases are made by whites. So it's whites who have the thug image has been marketable and created a financial incentive for black artists to play up to that.

If white folks were interested in buying CDs or downloads by rap artists who sang about radical social transformation and community uplift and racism

And yes there are many, many such artists out there

Then that’s the music that would be churned out in larger numbers. But white consumers aren’t, by and large, looking to buy songs about overthrowing the system from which you benefit.

White boys would rather listen to songs about guns and drugs, and being a thug.

It's white buyers who make that kind of rap profitable, but instead of asking for any responsibility from them, you blame the artists for doing what they’re supposed to do in a capitalist system, which is respond to market demand, no matter the social consequences.

I've never understood why some black people call each other NIGGA but its negative for a white person to refer to them as that.

A white person calling a black person the N-word is not the real issue.

The issue is that the insult takes place against a backdrop of systemic and institutional racism. And that backdrop–of housing and job discrimination, racial profiling, unequal health care access, and a media that regularly presents blacks in the worst possible light makes verbal insults (even if relatively minor) take on a bigger meaning.

That’s why a black person calling a white person honky or cracker does not bother most whites because it’s lacks any institutional force to back up those words.

Now if black people could deny white people jobs, housing, health care, decent educations, or their physical freedom via the justice system and hold white people back in every imaginable way and HATE WHITE PEOPLE en mass via de jure and de facto racism for HUNDREDS of years, thereby wrecking their lives

Then you better believe white people would not like being called honky or cracker by black people

So black people are well aware that racial insults used against us, are often the tip of a much larger iceberg.

Also most white people don't know any black people. So what you know of black people is from TV which is controlled by white people. Most black people I know in real life rarely if ever use the word.

But the historic use of the n-word in the white community is not one of mixed meaning.

It is not a history in which white people called black people the word, as if it meant

“hey, let’s go grab a burger and fries.”

In the hearts of whites, that word has only been used in the context of hate.

As such, for any white person to use it today is to force the black person hearing it to immediately wonder what’s behind the comment, what the speaker’s intent really is, in a way they don’t have to sweat as readily when spoken by another black person.

For me personally there is no racial name a white person can say to me that would offend me. There are things they can do that would offend me. But nothing they can say

I mean firstly it isn't music , and secondly looking like 5 Cent isn't a good look.

I'm sure 50 cents bank manager would disagree. Saying 50 cent is not a good for black people is a stupid as me saying Marilyn Manson is not a good look for white people.