Racially Motivated Threads of the Social Lounge...

[Punisher__]

Any slight a black rapper has ever made toward white people pales in comparison to the racism that black people encounter on the daily and white hip hop fans spew constantly. Which rappers are using the word "cracker" and what is offensive about saying "white folks"? They're folk, and they're white. They're white folk.

Cracker isn't even in the same realm of offense as nigga or the n-word, and white so-called hip hop fans are using these terms daily on this board and among themselves.

Now, we use the n-word as a means of weakening its power over us. When a non-black uses this word it is a means of trying to demean and assert their power over us. I don't let that shit affect me, but I'm not going to sit back and let these white folk whine about a double-standard. It reminds me of an interview I heard where Eminem was saying he would never work with Lauryn Hill because he "heard" she was racist and then went on to claim that his success had nothing to do with his skin colour. Racism against white people? Please, that's laughable. Eminem gave a glimpse of his issues in that interview, that boy has a problem.

I don't think there are very many of us who get upset when white people buy our music. I think it does upset a lot of us when white fans go on to claim that Eminem is the greatest smartest most articulate rapper that ever existed, when white fans try to separate hip hop from its black roots, or when white fans get pissy when rappers talk about black pride and pride in the motherland. This is black music. White people can do it, they can love it, they can embrace it, but it's our culture, not theirs.

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*gives rep*

 

[dubzz]

I like this post.

*gives rep*

Thanks breddrin.

 

[allreasoned_out]

I thought some of you might find this interesting.

May 28, 2010
The Moynihan Future
By JAMES T. PATTERSON

Providence, R.I.

FORTY-FIVE years ago this month, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan began quietly circulating a report he had recently completed about the “tangle of pathology” — out-of-wedlock births, fatherless households — damaging low-income black families. The title said it all: “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.”

It proved enormously controversial and established its author’s reputation as an iconoclast, yet today the Moynihan Report is largely forgotten. Sadly, its predictions about the decline of the black family have proven largely correct. Fortunately, many of its prescriptions remain equally relevant.

The report greatly impressed Mr. Moynihan’s colleagues in the Johnson administration.
. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, forwarding it to the White House, described an accompanying memo from Moynihan as “nine pages of dynamite about the Negro situation.”

President Johnson then asked Moynihan to help draft his famous 1965 commencement address at Howard University. Celebrating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a voting-rights bill about to pass, the president nonetheless warned that freedom alone was not enough; changes in the economic and social situation of America’s blacks, the focus of Moynihan’s report, were likewise pressing. “We seek not just freedom but opportunity,” he declared. “We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.”

Many black leaders lauded the address. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told Johnson, “Never before has a president articulated the depths and dimensions of the problem of racial injustice more eloquently and profoundly.”

In late July, however, escalation in Vietnam began swallowing up money that might have supported the sort of social initiatives Moynihan and Johnson called for. In August, the Watts riots frightened many whites away from backing civil rights causes. Johnson’s powerful liberal coalition started to crack, and along with it his chances of passing wide-reaching social legislation.

Moreover, when the report was leaked that summer, its unflattering portrait of black families angered militant civil rights leaders. Some charged that Moynihan had “blamed the victim.” James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, denounced the report as a “massive cop-out for the white conscience.”

Johnson was afraid to antagonize the civil rights leaders, and the report was soon consigned to oblivion. The moment, Moynihan later lamented, had been lost. Today many Americans continue to regard impoverished black people as undeserving malingerers, while others, still worried about offending black activists, insist that white racism is the sole explanation of racial inequality.

Meanwhile Moynihan’s pessimistic prophecies have come true. In 1965, a quarter of nonwhite births in the United States were out of wedlock, eight times the proportion among whites. Today the proportion of nonmarital births among non-Hispanic blacks exceeds 72 percent, compared with a proportion among non-Hispanic whites of around 28 percent.

Only 38 percent of black children now live with married parents, compared with three-quarters of non-Hispanic white children. Many boys in fatherless families drop out of school, fail to find living-wage work and turn to idleness or crime. Many girls become poverty-stricken single mothers themselves.

There are no magic bullets for the rise of out-of-wedlock births, a trend rooted in the decline in marriage rates and one that has affected other western nations as well. But as Moynihan recommended, we can expand employment programs to help young black people find work.

Our major effort, though, must be to help the very young. Black community leaders should collaborate with philanthropists and public officials in multi-faceted programs aimed at advancing the cognitive and social development, and ensuring the safety, of pre-school and school-age children in troubled neighborhoods.

Such efforts might be modeled on those of the Harlem Children’s Zone, which Barack Obama promised in 2008 to help replicate in 20 cities. The project features a “baby college” offering a nine-week parenting program, all-day kindergarten classes, K-12 charter schools, after-school tutoring, summer school, family counseling and a health clinic. In 2008 it reached some 8,000 children in a 100-block area, at a cost of $58 million.

None of this is cheap, or a guaranteed success. But if we do not act, the “tangle of pathology” that Moynihan described in 1965, having grown far worse, will be impossible to unravel, and America will become more deeply divided than ever along class and racial lines.

James T. Patterson is a professor emeritus of history at Brown and the author of “Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle Over Black Family Life From L.B.J. to Obama.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/opinion/29Patterson.html?src=mv

 

[hrap-120]

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Lecture/The-Kerner-Commission-Report

They speak on this in this article about the Kerner comission.

 

[kingblaze84]

http://www.komonews.com/news/95191119.html

SEATTLE - A 16-year-old boy from West Seattle says he was held hostage and beaten for hours, all because of the color of his skin.

Shane McClellan says two men kicked and whipped him at gunpoint - and told him they singled him out because he is white.

Tim McClellan, Shane's father, says he barely recognized his son after the brutal assault.

"I didn't know if he was alive or dead," Tim McClellan said.

The incident happened as Shane McClellan was walking home from a birthday party at a friend's house Tuesday around 2 a.m.

Shane says two men called to him from the top of a staircase near the intersection of 14th Avenue SW and SW Holden Street. The men asked for a light, and when Shane walked over to oblige, they knocked him to the ground and started kicking him.

The two men knocked the frightened teen around on the staircase, making racially charged remarks.

"They started bringing up the past - like slavery - being like, white people did this," Shane said in an exclusive interview with KOMO News reporter Shomari Stone.

The attackers stripped off McClellan's belt and started whipping his back.

"They said, 'This is for what your people did to our people.' They were like whipping me with my belt, my studded belt," Shane recounts.

One of the men held a gun against the back of his head and burned his neck with cigarettes.

At one point they shoved McClellan's face into a hole with the gun against his head. They also urinated on him and poured beer over him.

"What he told me, when they were beating him with the belt, they were saying, 'I don't like white people,'" says Shane's father, Tim McClellan.

Shane recalls, "They're like, 'Aw, white boy, what are you doing? You can't hang out this late. What are you doing around here?' They're like, 'White boy has no belonging - being out here at 2 a.m.'"

"They targeted me for being white, and they made it very clear thats why they were assaulting me," Shane says.

The boy told police that one of his attackers appeared to be black and the other Asian or Pacific Islander.

The victim's father says this was nothing short of hours of torture.

"Put a gun to the back of his head and told him if he said anything they were going to blow his head off while they sat there and burned him with cigarettes on the back of the neck," he says.

The two assailants held the victim on the ground for some time, and Shane eventually passed out.

When he regained consciousness, the attackers were gone. They had taken his money, a coat and an MP3 player.

Shane waved down a passing car for help and met his family at the hospital.

Seattle police have referred the case to their Bias Crimes Unit for review as a possible hate crime.

Detectives told the family they are working on a photo montage of possible suspects - and will see if the victim is able to identify his attackers from the line-up.

Shane is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.

But he gets chills when he looks at the photos that were taken of him right after the attack.

"Gets me shaken up every time I see it," he says. "I don't know, I just get vibes overall from seeing those pictures."

He says he has learned not to wander through the neighborhood at 2 in the morning - and he hopes his attackers are caught and charged with a hate crime.

 

[kingblaze84]

Aw.....poor guy.

 

[Punisher__]

This is a step in the right direction.

 

[kingblaze84]

This is a step in the right direction.

:::::::Gasps::::::::

 

[Chike]

Right, well that's HIS side of the story. And we all know what kinds of stories these people are capable of... Just go to a history class and you'll know.

 

[playmaker88]

I call bullshit..he had me @ the slavery line

 

[independentsoundlab]

LOL@ Aw White boy..

ive never seen a white boy out past 8pm.. thats curfew for them.. like what the fuck.. he should of known better..

 

[ItzGravitation]

racist blaccs amd a racist asian?

shame on those guys for being so cruel and inhumane

 

[ThaChozenWun]

I think this shit was a gang initiation or there was somethin said by the white boy.

If they did just jump him for no reason though shits pathetic. We bitch and moan all the time about being steretyped and how our people were beatin back in the day.

Well this shows where the steretypin and evil thoughts come from and what is the sense of hating something if you yourself are gonna go out and do the same things you despise to white man for doing. Its like saying you hate drug dealers for selling your mom shit then going out selling dope to people to.

 

[playmaker88]

I think this shit was a gang initiation or there was somethin said by the white boy.

If they did just jump him for no reason though shits pathetic. We bitch and moan all the time about being steretyped and how our people were beatin back in the day.

Well this shows where the steretypin and evil thoughts come from and what is the sense of hating something if you yourself are gonna go out and do the same things you despise to white man for doing. Its like saying you hate drug dealers for selling your mom shit then going out selling dope to people to.

True.. true.. true.

 

[DarcSkies777]

Crackers stay lyin.

 

[dnyce215]

It sound suspect to me, an black and asian or island pacific persons of interest and you give them a light and you can't identify them * in riley voice* that is some bullshit!

 

[Punisher__]

I call bullshit..he had me @ the slavery line

I agree.

This shit does seem exaggerated.

 

[ItzGravitation]

shit could be true cuz i heard friends talk like that towards whites

 

[Chike]

shit could be true cuz i heard friends talk like that towards whites

Talking and doing are completely different things. And even still, though I wouldn't personally go out and harm anyone for no reason, I still wouldn't feel bad for this shit happening. Like Malcolm X said, the chickens are coming home to roost. This type of shit happens all the fuckin time to black people by the Police... now all of a sudden some white kids gets a beat down and it's WW3. gtfo. Race Wars coming to a hood near you. Get ready, the media is hyping this shit up, that kid probably fell off his skateboard and made up a convincing lie so his parents wouldn't ground him for not wearing a helmet. LOL

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Talking and doing are completely different things. And even still, though I wouldn't personally go out and harm anyone for no reason, I still wouldn't feel bad for this shit happening. Like Malcolm X said, the chickens are coming home to roost. This type of shit happens all the fuckin time to black people by the Police... now all of a sudden some white kids gets a beat down and it's WW3. gtfo. Race Wars coming to a hood near you. Get ready, the media is hyping this shit up, that kid probably fell off his skateboard and made up a convincing lie so his parents wouldn't ground him for not wearing a helmet. LOL

Wheres the cops come into play? They do it because they are power hungry and feel above everyone else, white cops, black cops, hispanic cops, fuckin alien cops dont matter, they all beat peoples asses.