I’m thoroughly convinced that the majority of people surfing the internet just don’t like to see other people happy. Like the thought of others happy and not them makes them sick and it’s sad. Like instead of trying to make your situation better, you start hating on others or try to fuck up someone else’s life. That’s some evil ass shit right there.
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Kanye West is white America’s worst nightmare. Because as much as one may attempt to dismiss him — by calling him an asshole or classless or deranged or various other adjectives that fill the comment sections of literally every article about him — you still have to turn on your regularly scheduled late night comedy program and stare him in the face. You can’t avoid Kanye. He’s made very sure of that.
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Kanye is not a “new slave” in the same sense as the victims of the prison industrial complex, but he is still trapped in a world that expects him to not only be complicit with the struggle of his people, but to be appreciative that he is not one of them. And on top of all that, while he gets to exist in the world of the 1%, having the money and signifiers of success still aren’t enough to make his (white) 1% peers actually even respect him.
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The ideals of Public Enemy are as relevant today as they were in the 80s, but hip-hop was nowhere near as dominant and omnipresent a cultural force as it is at this moment; to compare the reach of their messages is silly. Upper-middle class white families did not have to deal with Public Enemy if they didn’t want to. Similarly with politically-minded “noise rap” artists that have been name-dropped in reviews of Kanye’s new material — it’s all well and good for Death Grips and Blackie and even Killer Mike to espouse similar messages and sounds (and honestly, the sonic qualities of “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead” are hardly at the top of the list of why they’re important), but none of them have anywhere near the amount of visibility and influence as Kanye, even if they did hit it first.
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People in current positions of comfort and stability are so willing to dismiss the transgressive thoughts of an angry black man that they will use any convenient excuse to diminish from them; if someone says something that makes you uncomfortable, why not immediately change the subject to his girlfriend’s ass or that time he yelled at a papparazzi or that time he got drunk and embarrassed a white girl? When was it exactly that Kanye shifted, in the eyes of the mainstream, from lovable polo-wearing backpacker to perpetually and unanimously An Asshole? When, precisely, did everything he said get immediately categorized as a “rant” or “controversial” regardless of the actual content? I want to say it was around the time when he said that George Bush didn’t care about black people on live tv. Hmm. Odd.
- Meaghan Garvey, Who Will Survive In America? (via machistado)
- Person: I think abortion should only be allowed in the event of rape.
- Me: Then every rape victim will just be told that they're lying and be turned away.
- Person: Oh, I'm sure people will lie about getting raped so they can get an abortion.
- Me: Thank you for proving my point.
The classic doll color test performed with a white child, complete with the parent’s
excusesreactionsThe little girl even says she picked the white figures as the good child because it “looks like me” and the dark girl as bad because “she’s dark”. When Soledad O’Brien asks the girl’s mother about it, we’re met with quite a few colorblind based excuses and “well, we just don’t talk about race”.
“We don’t talk about race!!”
And your kid is saying racist shit regardless.
That should fucking tell you something, lady.
But of course, it won’t. I bet you cash money she won’t change a thing, continuing to use that color blind bullshit.
This is why the whole idea of not discussing race with white children is bullshit. No, it won’t “taint” them. When you don’t talk about it, they still form opinions — racist ones — because they don’t know any better, so to speak. Then one day they grow up into adults that are, guess what, still racist. As Black folks, we pretty much all had “the talk” as kids/young people; our existence in this society dictates that we do, because racism is a part of our lives at an incredibly young age. Colorblind ideology has been proven to be toxic as blatant racism. And little white kids can be just as racist as their parents.
Shuji Ishikawa (c) vs Ryuji Ito, BJW 2013
Raw is really good. IWC runs wild all over your happiness.
On this day: Moments after Triple H tears his quadriceps muscle off the bone, Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit defeat The Two-Man Power Trip of Stone Cold & Triple H to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship in one of RAW’s greatest matches. (5/21/01)
About "Ground control to Major Tom"
A 15 yearold Detroit native who dreams of becoming a pro wrestler. I support social justice, despite my many privileges, and hold socialist views. This was once considered part music blog but I'd rather not turn my love of music into a chore by periodically posting it, though I still share music on occasion. Overall I really just post whatever I find amusing, interesting, or pertaining to the categories above. Also beware of angsty text posts, I often don't even realize I post them but it happens.
