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Post by mountzion on Mar 23, 2014 20:40:37 GMT 1
Anon: working class people all over the world can relate to various aspects of the struggle that Africans in America have experienced and continue to endure! Many folks are poor & disenfranchised, and a part of an underclass because of the power hunger and imperialism if some group more organized than their own!
Seperation is the biggest and most effective tool used to distract us for unification against the elite!
My enemy's enemy is my friend, brethren!
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Post by emancip8urself on Mar 23, 2014 23:53:07 GMT 1
Amen! Universal truth! Seeing eachother and the world in terms of race is what the enemy does/wants us to do.
Thank you Mountzion!
One love! x
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Post by supermoonface on Mar 24, 2014 19:26:17 GMT 1
Watch the old film Bullworth
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Post by L.A.323 on Mar 28, 2014 2:22:15 GMT 1
Anon: working class people all over the world can relate to various aspects of the struggle that Africans in America have experienced and continue to endure! Many folks are poor & disenfranchised, and a part of an underclass because of the power hunger and imperialism if some group more organized than their own! Seperation is the biggest and most effective tool used to distract us for unification against the elite! My enemy's enemy is my friend, brethren! Relating is not the same as experience. there are things that Blacks go through as Blacks because of our race and NOT our socioeconomic status (which is tied to racism for us). Separatism is the only effective tool for Blacks.
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Post by mountzion on Mar 28, 2014 3:50:00 GMT 1
Anon, I agree that separatism is what we need as a people...why I live where I live, shop where I shop, my husband and I send our children to certain schools! This NEEDS to be done to recenter and redefine ourselves after the trauma of having our very identity ripped from us collectively. Segregation was the WORST mistake Black Americans made in the last 100 years! We were on the road to recovery rebuilding our communities without government interferrence (which they ans many ild negroes call help)!
That said, I don't believe that all experiences are exactly the same...but the emotions we feel as a result and the compassion we can give to other humans CAN BE the same (if that make sense). I don't compare oppressive experiences, as it is often counter productive. BM vs BW is my least favorite. I don't really know how it feels to be a Black man; my husband doesn't really know how it feels to be a Black woman. We can share common emotions and comfort and sympathise with one another still. All I'm saying.
Joseph Campell said Intelligence is defined as seeing and comprehending the similarities and between phenomenon that appear to be different .
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Post by supermoonface on Mar 28, 2014 13:39:17 GMT 1
"We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." Maya Angelou This quote sums up perfectly how I feel about so much
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Post by supermoonface on Mar 28, 2014 13:49:43 GMT 1
"We more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." Maya Angelou This quote sums up perfectly how I feel about so much
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Post by Justme on Jun 9, 2016 1:14:07 GMT 1
The rumor isn't a rumor it's true. It was said on MTV in an interview. She was there with the other fugee members and it was right when she released her song "if I ruled the world". They were discussing how she feels about white people loving their music and buying the album. She said and I will never forget this cause I've repeated it so much over the years as I now see her as a prime racist example. " I would rather 1000 Africans die than 1 white person buy my album. " I will never forget that moment. It was a spring break special. THANK YOU!!! I remember that interview as it was the first time I heard blatant ignorance. I used to watch MTVs spring break specials like it was a job. That interview made me never want to listen to her music ever again. Still repeat what I heard her say whenever I hear any of her songs. Those words burned inside of me for years. Word for word that is what she said.
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Post by andme2 on Jun 9, 2016 2:30:26 GMT 1
The rumor isn't a rumor it's true. It was said on MTV in an interview. She was there with the other fugee members and it was right when she released her song "if I ruled the world". They were discussing how she feels about white people loving their music and buying the album. She said and I will never forget this cause I've repeated it so much over the years as I now see her as a prime racist example. " I would rather 1000 Africans die than 1 white person buy my album. " I will never forget that moment. It was a spring break special. THANK YOU!!! I remember that interview as it was the first time I heard blatant ignorance. I used to watch MTVs spring break specials like it was a job. That interview made me never want to listen to her music ever again. Still repeat what I heard her say whenever I hear any of her songs. Those words burned inside of me for years. Word for word that is what she said.
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Post by supermoonface on Jun 9, 2016 17:28:08 GMT 1
Even if she did make this comment the context is often overlooked.
If contained within a broader discussion about changing your music and image to appeal to a mainstream white audience or not make white people feel uncomfortable then it is even understandable.
You can imagine a record exec saying "ooh I don't know about this "if I ruled the world song" it sounds a bit too pro black. We don't want to upset white people who misconstrue pride in and addressing issues relating to your own race as a threat. We need those white dollars - don't do that song!"
You could see the argument going "I don't care if we loose money this is important to me I want to make songs for people like me"
"But these white dollars pay for kids food and fund your charities, if we loose the dollars less for your charities"
After enough back and forth enter the interviewer who asks "so how do you feel about white people and your music"
Now knowing exactly where this conversation is going having had it a hundred times before in frustration and perhaps flippantly but mostly for expedience to shut down the emphatic statement is uttered. Imagine internal monologue - for fucks sake am sick of this bullshit.
What's always missing is the accusation that black people will starve if you don't sell records to white people.
Having had that argument used on you so many times I can understand how you would flip and effectively state - I don't care if a 1000 black kids starve I will not remove positive messages from my music that apply only to my own race.
Wonder if India Arie got the same shit for Brown Skin
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Post by KoolRuler on Jun 12, 2016 13:08:28 GMT 1
Bunch of BS, I remember so many people running around talking about L saying this etc but I never could find the footage and these people could never show me ish! A made up statement that went viral!! Interview below where L was in Norway 96 where the rumour is addressed and as she said, don't that sound retarded? being such a big star, why de rasshole would you say, I don't want white people to buy my music! foolishness, its almost like people want to believe it, for some F@***@ up reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDaG9Zz7J0Y
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Post by supermoonface on Jun 13, 2016 2:41:37 GMT 1
Just to be clear - I don't believe she said anything of the sort.
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