JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
Absolutely, but its still a culture that's being singled out not a skin tone... if they act and dress that way, they fit the description. Pigment has little to do with it... I stress this, cause you are giving racist an easy out when you try to frame it as such.
The white kid that was gunned down by cops is a racist favorite right now, and if you look at his picture, he fits the description![]()
I think the racists' hostility toward the white kid who was gunned down comes from two different places: 1) opportunism, in the sense that this kid's murder presents an opportunity for them to attack him and say, "Look, white people get killed too," in an effort to cover up their racism and defend the system; and 2) his cultural proximity to Blackness, given his adoption of "urban"/Hip-Hop styles, which makes it easier to rationalize his murder but also undermines the racial-cultural narrative they put forth regarding Black criminality, flaws in Black culture, etc. (because here you have a white person adopting the culture)
If white people invented Hip-Hop culture, it would probably still be maligned to some extent, but not like it is now. It'd probably be akin to punk rock or something. But given who invented Hip-Hop, discourse around it is racially-coded in all sorts of ways.
Maybe I'm wrong
