[leonard]

because some working-class whites tell racial jokes or some ruling class whites hold condecending views towards blacks or some pundit with antiquated notions of ‘color blindness’ and ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ and a couple hours of radio time chooses to fixate on black failure rather than black achievment, none of whom can be said to ‘try and act black’, a white person who wears his hair in dreads or listens to hip-hop is being hypocritical? these are the whites who sound like cornell west when they talk about politics, attributing everything they don’t like about the status quo to racism whether race is relevant to the subject at hand or not. i’m probably more likely to be called out on some presumed racism by a white kid with dreads than by a black kid with dreads. black and white are not monoliths, they’re two communities of individuals. i know in a forum on identity politics it’s appropriate to speak in generalisations, but to get a full, intelligent perspective, you have to break it down a little more than into just white and black. for instance, i could respond to your post with a lot of grousing about how ‘black people’ are cheavanistic about their contributions to popular culture when they get everbody from utah to minisota talking about ‘rolling slow on my 28 inch blades’ and wearing fubu only to admonish whites for ‘trying to act black’, but i know this is only one perspective among african americans. a far more enlightened view comes from russle simmons who sees hip-hop’s greatest achievment is that it has ‘connected he ghetto to the trailer park’. i think this connection exists on more economic strata than that, but it’s a nice sentiment anyway.

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Name : leonard, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, City : ipsilanti, State : MI, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,