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SixFeet
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 Posted - 2007/03/30 : 21:44:32
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ExnDG0K4D4o
Very thought provoking video, must see really. Don't go all PC on me because I'll just ignore it.
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Mortis
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Posted - 2007/03/30 : 22:06:35
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Originally posted by SixFeet:
Don't go all PC on me because I'll just ignore it.
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Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2007/03/30 : 23:36:22
*clears throat*
Everyone, everywhere of every has a culture in perceived decay. However, every culture has always been fcuked up, we simply gloss over the past with nostalgia. Furthermore, developing perceptions of entire cultures is idiotic, and is the kind of thinking that breeds unwarranted prejudice.
And that song they picked at the end sucked (or at least the lyrics and MCing did)
Edit: And how sad, it's Lupe Fiasco too. Really shouldn't have recorded something so below his par.
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SixFeet
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Posted - 2007/03/31 : 12:36:08
Greatest picture ever Mortis. My new MSN pic! 
EDIT: Pope I think you missed the point...
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Edited by - SixFeet on 2007/03/31 12:48:12 |
Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2007/03/31 : 15:40:00
What? To point out that black people as a whole have failed to live up to the high hopes of the civil rights movement, presenting themselves in the media (most of the time) with the sort of image that they tried to escape in the past? Or was there a different point?
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Jay-Owen
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Posted - 2007/03/31 : 18:27:23
So basically because a few rappers have decided to give themselves a bad image you decide it's okay to label the black community as a whole? That sickens me...
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Pope C XXIII
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Posted - 2007/04/01 : 00:21:36
I worded that horribly. I meant to say that black culture as a whole (because there are individual black media figures that present a very positive image) failed at that part of the civil rights movement, "that" part being making a new image for themselves that doesn't just engender more racism. If you look at what "black culture" has become, it's really sad that a group would choose to represent themselves like that. If you watch BET, you really don't see many positive role models. (Not to say you see them anywhere else, but still.) I don't want people to think I characterize a large group of people as any stereotype, but the media pretty much can be characterized by those very stereotypes.
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jenks
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Posted - 2007/04/01 : 18:05:19
Generalisation is fine, aslong as you know you're doing it.
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