Well to be fair, not all white people are racist and sadly, hate to say this, there are some black people that don't know any better or are ignorant about themselves and their own where they think this is the way they are supposed to be. Sadly, we overlook our own and then think it's all about fighting racism and prejudice from nonblacks when we also gotta fight the ignorance coming from within.
There will always be bad apples in the bunch regardless but sometimes, I think that some of us tend to champion the negatives to the point where we support it and the downfall. Dude is supposed to be an entertainer. He never thought that he didn't have to live what he raps. Folks wanna be militants but they don't apply that shyt to themselves and in a way that benefits the world around them. No need to spread bigotry and prejudice towards another person because they aren't black in order to make a point or to fight against racist fukks and etc. Let's not burn those that aren't apart of the shyt.
I agree. Again, this is a conversation that supercedes this thread.
But I guess by pointing that out and saying this, it gets under people's skin because pointing out anything that has to do with race makes people uncomfortable. I've experienced it.
I'll explain. In my senior year of college, I started to work out heavy and go to the gym. I signed up for PE classes. People (primarily white people) would ask me if I played for the football team, or the basketball team. When I told them, no, and that I was a student...they stopped talking to me in mid conversation. Seriously. As if the possibility of a black man that happens to like to exercise not being a part of a sports team was alien.
Then again, look at how student athletes in college are treated compared to students in college. Especially black people.
Black student athletes are treated like gods and get all the women, get kickbacks other students get, etc.
Black students are treated like they are invisible. They might as well be invisible. I went to a school of 45,000 and only had 2 friends. 2.
I even got insulted and verbally harassed by the black football players. They'd call me a sell out and an uncle tom for skateboarding with my crew on the weekends.
As if black people can't be "average". This is the problem. Not all of us like hip-hop. Not all of us are rappers. Or are athletic...or can dance.