I feel it doesn't have to be a debate and it's not a pointless thread.
You can't just discuss the good the choose to ignore the ugly (yet truthful
facts) otherwise we'll never find a solution. It's so easy to say let's just
drop or ignore the subject when you've never experienced it. Therefore it
does matter to everyone who's been passed over for a job, passed up by a
taxi, or not given any other type of opportunity (musically or otherwise)
because of their skin color.
Laura make a point as black artists have always been ignored or passed over
by the good old boy network (yes it still exists) yet they would have you
think that everything is great!
Once a friend from Germany told me the story of her trip to Detroit, going
to an mostly black club and how she felt uncomfortable. I said now you see
how we can feel over there and she replied, it's different with your friends
because they are DJs. What makes it so different? We are still people of
color. When I went into a few restaurants people would stop and begin to
stare and after the second time I started to get angry. Had they never seen
people of color in person before? I felt as though they were thinking what
are you doing in here, shouldn't you be on the street or in your own
neighborhood?
For those who still asking what does this have to do with music: There's
Terry Lee BROWN Jr. Using a black name, the color brown in his name, and a
cartoon character with an afro and big lips he had everyone thinking he was
black (and many still do today), sounds like "blackface." I would have
enjoyed his music just the same knowing he was white but now I'm not going
to buy it anymore since he's pretending to be something he's not.
Truth
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it for myself...
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