I Self Lord & Master;7491152 said:
sr_the_freshman;7491124 said:
I Self Lord & Master;7491096 said:
I understand how this can be a turnoff...But on a serious note how is this any different than him performing this in a majority white concert? (which happens often) is it the intimacy that makes it fucked up? If so why?
Shit, how is this different than athletic combines? Or pro sports period?
I understand there are a lot of white boys, n non blacks period puggybackin off jokes and jus saying what they think should be said, but to the black ppl ; where does the line get drawn?
I think it's the intimacy, and you bring up a good point that I mentioned earlier. Time and place.
With pro sports, your out there watching our people dominate venues in which we couldn't even think of participating in, thanks to segregation. There is a mutual respect I think.
In concerts, in that sea of people, the buffoonery is spread evenly. They aren't there to watch a spectacle song and dance. They're there to participate 9 times out of 10. As weird as that sounds.
Time and place in regards to what? I need to know why the intimacy makes it worse than a white concert. That last paragraph was straw reaching
U went around and beyond my sports question. These niggas literally have tape measures on them and their weight and speed measured to go perform and mske white billionares richer while getting paid nigga pennies on the dollar. And to many being a pro athlete is among the apexs of black life in america
If this smurdah shit is as extreme as yall tryna paint it, we need to do some collective reevaulating of ou actualr position as blk ppl in america...
@ bolded I absolutely agree.
I think your pointing to a broader issue though which is overall ownership in the industries which we make rich, which is an entirely bigger problem which needs to be addressed.
I'm comin' from it more so on the dignity end of the spectrum. The shit Bobby is doin' in that video is a 100% mirror image of some schuck and jive shit you'd see in day's of oppression. With the concert thing, it's an issue of
"-are they laughing WITH you, or at you?" In terms of a concert the energy is one way. When your literally standing there in front of your potential handlers, gettin' light in the name of a potential deal, its the other way.
There's a thin line.
As for the pro sports thing, I'm not curving your question. I think the situations are different. With music, they're profiting off of, and in some ways, whoring out
our culture. With pro sports, everyone has to deal with that tape measure shit; white, black, brown or yellow. That shit doesn't belong to us either. Now obviously, black athletes are what make the game what it is today, and I definitely agree that because of this, we should have a much larger stake of ownership in it.
But Hip-Hop is something we created as a people, we own, and we actively create.
Sports is just some shit we participate in, and dominate.
When we are getting pimped out via outsiders in our own shit, then I think it's worse.