i agree with you on some of your points. i heard the song once. it sounds like he was angry. do i think he's a racist, not at all. not anymore than i think donald sterling is. people crucified him and they managed to take his team. it sounds like something might have happened that would make him upset enough to externalize feelings like that. like something racist happened or was happening that made him feel the need to make a song like that. i mean it seems like at least every other month we have another case of a young black male being shot, often times unarmed, due to some altercation with the police. the police are too deep to need to shoot anyone if you really think about it. unless they were fighting the hulk, they should be able to solve most problems with non-lethal weapons. unless whoever the culprit is decides to be on some Rambo shit. then i wouldn't blame them for grabbing guns. but it might just be a black male psyche thing. to have us all afraid or have some fear or distrust of cops, and cops to profile blacks, which would be symptoms and byproducts of racism.
Well I don't label people as if there are good people and bad people and look for clues as to their inner psyche. My life outlook is based in science and psychology and the reality is we evolved to be predators. To hunt and rape and kill. Its society that trains us at a very young age to not kill and to not rape and such. One of the lessons to be involved in that is to not be ethnocentric, in other-words to override that biology inside us, and all animals, that sees something and assess if that is like you, or different than you. It goes back to primal times when animals had to find out who their family were and differentiate between friend or foe. So its natural to gravitate to people who are exactly like you and to be biased against people who are not like you. Its just a matter of do people override that urge to be immature like that or do they have a sense of honor, context, and civilization.
So in a sense everyone has racist tendencies, just the "correct" ones don't let that get in the way of business or social situations and try to treat everyone generally equal and fairly. Everyone was born a killer except we raised them up to know its wrong.
So was Sterling a classic old school racist? Sure, but so was Lebron for reacting like some Urban racial folk hero. Are the cops biased (and for statistical good reason, poor guys) yeah, but so are the perpetrators resisting arrest because "cops are racist." Yeah. Everyone involved is classified as racist.
Thats why in my opinion the solution is to be not racist in the first place and make the subject a think that focuses on teaching people the understand one another better and more intelligently. Not to believe in religion and history as much as biology and sociology and psychology. When we ask why people do what they do, we understand them better and have a deeper appreciation and love for their human condition, such as with how rap music helps people in general appeal to the urban experience to understand the depth of the struggle and not see everyone in the ghetto are soulless gutter trash instead its like romanticizing it.
we should promote kids being proud of being human first, but they should also have ethnic/genetic origin pride. to be black and proud is important. because black people's history is so ****ed up compared to everyone else. blacks are different from african american's based on the fact that we don't have an actual language. there is so much pride, and identity that's tied in your language. the fact that i'm fluent in english, and have no idea what country my ancestors are from, shows you what the institution of slavery managed to do. here's something to think about. the same age at which we're supposed to learn about slavery, is the same grade that if you don't learn how to read, you're gonna go to prison. (the third grade.) (for young black males)
if your country is your mother, your language is your father. i wonder what the ratio of young black males is that have ever heard the following statement. "if you don't like it, go back to Africa." how many blacks growing up today know someone who lived and experienced stuff when there were literally facilities that said "whites only" or "colored." my father did, and never once has he taught me to be racist. he's said racist stuff before, and he's had experiences happen to him that would cause me to sympathize with him, if he chose to be a racist. so there's really no excuse to me. however I'm understanding when it happens. blacks are literally a product of racism, i'm not making excuses for him, but i'm not condemning him either.
This is where it gets complicated and you have to see the big picture. But that bolded statement is absolutely what is wrong with minority thinking and what keeps fanning the flames of racism in minorities.
The reason they are "down" is because they can't integrate into the greater system because in the business world, two white men talking are just two men in their minds. They don't see themselves as race as part of their identity. But then when you see two black dudes, (even if they don't know each other) they will connect on some racial level beyond the default of two men talking, instead they are two "brothazz" in the struggle talking so little stuff like that is different in the mainframe identity of "proud" minorities and how they deal with their status. Its like this open wound that never closes.
So in the business world people hate to pander to each other. In friendship sure we can just accept anyone. But in the business world, if you are white you are judged by your stength and weakness and merit and its a thing outside of tolerating "racial sensitivity". Its kinda like how women don't make good Marines because they have a period and might bleed on a sniper mission. Minority racism is a crutch because at the end of the day nobody gives a fuk and has their own problems and goals in life.
So just like a random white American guy isn't white and proud, neither should blacks or mexicans or asians be proud to be an race/ethnic group, but rather should just be proud to be an American.
The thing about slavery is not the hit to the ego, it was the hit to the cultural origin. Like education other groups had, slaves didnt have an origin because they couldn't read or write and pass on culture, neither African nor American. But the cool thing is American culture is now the ultimate culture all other countries aspire to experience and emulate and live up to. African Americans are in a great position to get first hand absorption of this new modern phenomenon when most other countries are still behind. Like damn you're lucky your grandparents got sold by your people for some fake jewels and came to paradise and gave birth to your parents so you will one day enjoy a better life lol. All black mothers have to do is learn from the education sources available today with the internet. They just have to be convinced to copy us, instead of trying to rebel agains us like negative black leaders like al sharpton try to lead a path to pain and reopening wounds. Obama doesn't say anything to help. Hell, Bill Cosby was more right in the 80s when he was always aggressively encouraging education in minorities and black households.
Also white people don't accept it or understand slavery as an excuse (There is still super serious slavery in 3rd world countries even today black Americans are lucky) because they think its the ego that is still the problem but its not, the problem is like I said; penetration of education on a mass scale to single mothers in the struggle.
also you mention him being obsessed with his race when "he brought it up" but you went on to mention "since I'm white I was never traumatized like that by my race." so you mention that we're humans, but then you go back to the same programming that everyone else has been affected by, when you mentioned "my race."
he's an artist expressing how he feels at that time. it's better he puts in a song if that's his way of dealing with it, than reacting violently right? eminem used to talk about pretty graphic stuff in his art. have you heard "the marshall mathers lp" if kendrick lamar's a racist, then eminem's a drug addicted homophobic serial killer, who's also fatally attracted to his wife. but if you believe that, then make sure you listen to "renegades" by Jay-Z. but to condemn someone based on what someone says when they're angry, is not always the best gauge. and some art from an artist might offend, but that's what makes them an artist.
I understand the type of Erica Badu soul vibe he's going for but thats my overall idea is its just bad timing and its a device that isn't sociologically healthy for the black community.
All members of all groups are more racist now than they were five years ago. The human being is not capable of being cured of racism, its can only be treated like its a taboo thing and turned into a cultural pattern where people know its not cool. Just like if a guy came to your house and bragged how he killed someone. You'd be like wtf?? (I hope.) Should be the same if your homie said the N word or brought up race or said something racist despite what race they are.
Should just not even come up because it shouldn't matter what race someone is. Im not a white dude, Im just a dude. Nomsayin.
