A Post From I. Myte's Serious Friend, Stefano
I’m readin’ stuff and I see that 50 cents, is that his name, is attacking Oprah for being white.
Or something like that. I guess he said that, on her show and elsewhere, she’s been catering to middle-class white women for so long that now she’s become a middle-class white woman herself.
And further said that rap music is mostly written by blacks and latinos, from their perspective, and that this is a perspective that Oprah no longer shares.
Hmmm. These things that 50 sense has said are not nearly as virulent as the mindless tirades of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards.
But ya know what. I still think his comments are bigoted.
And, if not bigoted, they are certainly divisive and counter-productive for the world we all live in.
Let’s break it down as the young people say. We are all part of a free society in 2006, and are all part of a world that we are working to make freer and freer. A world where people define themselves by their free thought and their free actions.
So, essentially, it’s completely out of step with the times for someone to be defined by their race alone. And it’s way, way out of step for someone to attempt to define somebody else by race.
Oprah is a human being, part of the human race. And for Half Dollar to try and say there is a certain way she ought to act in order for her to be part of Half Dollar’s race is really pretty screwed up.
She’s of African descent period. And proud of it, God bless her. And for someone to say she’s not black because she doesn’t act right! Well. Ya know what. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
And what the man is saying is bigoted. Period. Even if you make it up to 75 cents or even a dollar, don’t be going around defining someone racially because you don’t like the way they act or talk.
Another thing too, coin man. As for Oprah not sharing the perspective of rappers. Umm. Maybe if you stop and think about the garbage you peddle, you’d see that she probably feels, along with many people of all races, that the rap perspective is all too often a perspective that is a bum’s perspective that demeans and degrades rather than uplifts, that damages instead of builds, and that is inimical to the interests of my race.
Or something like that. I guess he said that, on her show and elsewhere, she’s been catering to middle-class white women for so long that now she’s become a middle-class white woman herself.
And further said that rap music is mostly written by blacks and latinos, from their perspective, and that this is a perspective that Oprah no longer shares.
Hmmm. These things that 50 sense has said are not nearly as virulent as the mindless tirades of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards.
But ya know what. I still think his comments are bigoted.
And, if not bigoted, they are certainly divisive and counter-productive for the world we all live in.
Let’s break it down as the young people say. We are all part of a free society in 2006, and are all part of a world that we are working to make freer and freer. A world where people define themselves by their free thought and their free actions.
So, essentially, it’s completely out of step with the times for someone to be defined by their race alone. And it’s way, way out of step for someone to attempt to define somebody else by race.
Oprah is a human being, part of the human race. And for Half Dollar to try and say there is a certain way she ought to act in order for her to be part of Half Dollar’s race is really pretty screwed up.
She’s of African descent period. And proud of it, God bless her. And for someone to say she’s not black because she doesn’t act right! Well. Ya know what. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
And what the man is saying is bigoted. Period. Even if you make it up to 75 cents or even a dollar, don’t be going around defining someone racially because you don’t like the way they act or talk.
Another thing too, coin man. As for Oprah not sharing the perspective of rappers. Umm. Maybe if you stop and think about the garbage you peddle, you’d see that she probably feels, along with many people of all races, that the rap perspective is all too often a perspective that is a bum’s perspective that demeans and degrades rather than uplifts, that damages instead of builds, and that is inimical to the interests of my race.
And your race too. The human race. Get a clue.
posted by I. Myte @ 2:45 AM
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