Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:52 am
I'm sure you've all heard about the video of the SAE dipshits singing a racist song about never admitting a black person into their frat.
(Why are we pretending frats matter to grown ups?)
MSNBC is now taking heat for "blaming it on rappers".
And they should because the one person's statement about the SAE kids learning the word from rappers is ridiculous. Even if it wasn't coming out that this song is an apparent SAE tradition and is sung at other chapters, there's still movies, books, friends, parents, etc. as other sources of where they might have heard that word previously other than rap music.
However, isn't it just as ridiculous to give rap a free pass?
All of these articles and talking heads saying "stop blaming black rappers for white racism" (which is racist all by itself, but let's ignore that) are pretty stupid themselves aren't they?
Why?
Because it's a fact that rap is marketed towards the audience who spends the money on it (just as any product is): White suburban kids. No really. They're the largest segment of the population that buys it.
So when you have songs in that genre using the n word non-stop, and your target audience is white kids, what's the message? "This word is ok when we're making money off of you, but you'd better never use it"?
Something else to point out is black activists' fight against rap for it's portrayal of women and promotion of a violent culture.
What these SAE kids did is ignorant and blaming rappers for a chant some college kids were doing that is clearly not a rap song is equally as ridiculous.
However, don't give rappers a free pass for what they're doing. If any person, no matter their sex or creed, walked down the street screaming obscenities, shouting about how violence is the answer, and telling everyone who will listen that women are property, what would you think of that person and their beliefs?
Racism isn't just a white thing and ending it doesn't mean changing just white minds/attitudes.
(Why are we pretending frats matter to grown ups?)
MSNBC is now taking heat for "blaming it on rappers".
And they should because the one person's statement about the SAE kids learning the word from rappers is ridiculous. Even if it wasn't coming out that this song is an apparent SAE tradition and is sung at other chapters, there's still movies, books, friends, parents, etc. as other sources of where they might have heard that word previously other than rap music.
However, isn't it just as ridiculous to give rap a free pass?
All of these articles and talking heads saying "stop blaming black rappers for white racism" (which is racist all by itself, but let's ignore that) are pretty stupid themselves aren't they?
Why?
Because it's a fact that rap is marketed towards the audience who spends the money on it (just as any product is): White suburban kids. No really. They're the largest segment of the population that buys it.
So when you have songs in that genre using the n word non-stop, and your target audience is white kids, what's the message? "This word is ok when we're making money off of you, but you'd better never use it"?
Something else to point out is black activists' fight against rap for it's portrayal of women and promotion of a violent culture.
What these SAE kids did is ignorant and blaming rappers for a chant some college kids were doing that is clearly not a rap song is equally as ridiculous.
However, don't give rappers a free pass for what they're doing. If any person, no matter their sex or creed, walked down the street screaming obscenities, shouting about how violence is the answer, and telling everyone who will listen that women are property, what would you think of that person and their beliefs?
Racism isn't just a white thing and ending it doesn't mean changing just white minds/attitudes.