Just when I thought I was the only one paying attention, P6 comes through and restores my faith. They simply can't have you talking about anything that could actually help you, so they turn the discussion to something else. Something that will have no real effect on the status quo.
And that worked SO well... "We are all complicit...let's not just single out the rappers," Obama said, noting that he had heard offensive words in many places other than rap songs.
Yes, he noted that. He heard offensive words 'around our dinner tables, in our barbershops, on our streets.' The diversion of discussion away from those whose decisions polute the social environment to the bad behavior of Black Americans is complete. That's it. C ya (wouldn't wanna B ya).
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I feel compelled to add just one more thought before the confusion reaches truly epic proportions.
There is a systemic dynamic in place that operates to maintain the status quo, especially in terms of the relative power of whites and blacks. It is well established that Blacks are basically powerless in the most important areas of economics and governmental power. Blacks control a small fraction of the wealth of this country, and despite our much touted consumer spending power, he retain little wealth from all that spending. There are Blacks in government, even our noteworthy candidate for POTUS, but they are mostly there by virtue of having sold out to corporate interests, or so marginalized as to be meaningless. In the face of these realities, it is ridiculous to postulate that there is this small group of Black entertainers who are shaping the face of Black culture and through this shaping the dominant culture.
If Blacks truly had the power to influence anything in this society, it would be the end of this society as we know it. If whites were not in power, if white privilege was not such a preciously preserved and protected thing, there would soon be no identifiable white race, as the phenotype of non-melanated skin is a genetic recessive trait. Without the power to create and enforce a caste system in this society, and to demonize, repress and keep non-whites, especially Blacks, from achieving real equality there would be even more intermingling of skin tones and cultures and the white race would simply disappear over time. Without the power to keep that from happening, there will be no more white race.
Now compare that Racism/White Supremacy dynamic to the current phenomena of hip-hop, where a few misguided Negroes say things that are potentially damaging to our communities. Because that's all any rapper can do. RAP. TALK. SAY STUFF. Maybe back it up with a little visual reinforcement from a music video. That's what rappers do.
Now ask yourself, between a system that needs to keep us down for it's own survival and a small group of mis-educated Negroes who sell music primarily to white folks, what's really behind anything negative that affects Black folks?
That's the only thing that matters in this discussion.
