mwandishi
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I guess I was unclear to a degree. Hip-hop incorporates all cultures today and its always has been the skill, but the tensions we speak of are more commonly sparked around the black-white dichotomy.See thats where you get it twisted, you are still thinking of things in a black/white relationship rather than about hip hop as a whole which incorporates all races and nationalities equally. When you put that divide into it then you are selling hip hop as a culture short.
I don't know how much plainer to explain that and when looked at that way "WE" as a culture can and do have a lot of economic power but "WE" as a culture take the lazy way out and allow others not only to dictate what "WE" want to hear but "WE" buy into it and give it validity by clicking on the YT vids, watching people talk about it on gossip shows, read about it on blogs and give it power in our culture. Every click, every comment and every dollar you spend in relation to something that goes against the culture as a whole or takes it a direction we don't agree with only serves to tear it down further.
You really think this would be a discussion if the girl we were talking about was of middle eastern descent living in France. GTF
Power relationships are implicitly part of these part of these discussions. Who creates? Who appropriates?
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