----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Kellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:58 PM Subject: RE: (313) handbags
> It's odd to me that we can accuse him of assuming things (the race of the > bootleggers, etc), and yet the majority of this discussion has been based on > the assumption that Dixon wrote the words. My thought exactly. If you read the comment again, the voice is clearly not first-person, and it seems to me this was just on a mailing list from a distributor rather than from the source? That's what the format looks like anyway... Alex, can you clarify? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There's no justification. I'd have hoped someone like KDJ > would be wiser than that, no matter how embittered he might feel because of > history - personal as well as collective. I don't think its so much of a historical beef as contemporary American reality. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you guys should > be investigating why Mr Dixon feels so strongly about the way he sees white > culture appropriating and exploiting black culture, rather than wasting your > time getting mock offended cos a black artist is saying disparaging things > about white bootleggers. Precisely. Whoever said it, it's not fair. It wasn't wise. Unless he actually knows that the people are white (a possibility, and even more of a likelihood if this was a distributor, as they would be more likely to know where the boots are coming from), it's a poorly invoked stereotype - but it's really not worth getting upset about it. What is the impact of black-on-white stereotyping? It's certainly nothing compared to the daily reality of economic and political inequality that many black Americans face every day (and yes, it is a much different thing in the states than in the UK, although racism here is *beginning* to resemble the American variety more with each day that black English youth look to African Americans for a cultural model, as the assimilate-to-white-cultural-values-or-else element of racism emerges from a recent history of nonracialised identity) - but that bit is probably not really topical... All IMHO or course. :P Tristan ======= Text/Mixes: http://www.phonopsia.co.uk Music: http://www.mp313.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
