Double-standard Racism, lets discuss it. :D
When someone says "I'm not racist, but..." does it still mean the same if they are black, as it would if they are white and southern? I think it's an interesting debate since it's exactly how Jeezy starts his collaberation with Jay-Z with the track My President is Black. "I'm not racist, but I'm glad my President is Black." What's the difference of myself, or any white male saying, "I'm not racist, but I'm glad my President is white." If McCain had won?
Conversly, given how poignant the poem was, the one read by the William Shatner-esque black woman during the inauguration, despite it's short-comings it did highlight the struggle of the African race in America. Sold into slavery by their own people in Africa to British traders who then sold them to American men as a means of cheap labor, all the while taking away their true racial identity and calling them "Nigger." I honestly find it in poor taste that Jay-Z and Jeezy's first remarks the very night of the swearing in of our first African-American President by saying: "My President is My Mother-fucking Nigger.*" I'm sorry, Obama's Kids love Hannah Montana, they were treated to a Jonas Brother's concert, whom they've professed is their favorite band. Obama, himself, has made comments which makes him a stereotype to African-American humor, the "Black man who tries too hard to be white. Whose forgotten his roots." Hell, look at Thomas Dubois, from Boondocks. He looks as if Barrack Obama had modeled for him.
Sadly, what I find most appalling with Obama's swearing in is the sudden change of terms. Do these African-American men of influence call Obama their "African-American Commander and Chief." The final proof that America is accepting and no longer racially intolerant? No. They proved how intolerant they have become by saying, "He ain't white, he ain't no chink.. He's Motherfucking Black." The last part of that sentence disheartens me the most. "Black." They're not saying he's African-AMERICAN, no. He's black. He's better than Americans, this is what they're trying to ellude to, and this does not promote racial unity. He is the first African-American President. Even if I didn't vote for him, I still take pride in that he proves that there is a unifying force in America that has hope to be nurtured and grown. That we are truly seeing each other as equals. There is no more race, it's all American. However, for an African-American entertainer to promote racial intolerance, well that's not only sad, that's irresponsible and if anyone should know better it is someone whose culture, whose people had lived through such horrors known only by the Jewish community, and those who have been forced into slavery and treated no better than as animals. What makes this situation worse is that it feeds the dregs. People like the KKK, the Ayrian Nation, other groups of that sort. They hear this and they use it for their propaganda.
Take pride, we all are. Show pride, we all have, but don't call Barrack Hussien Obama the first "Motherfucking Nigga" President. Stand proud and call him the first "African-American" President. Don't dare put a throwback to the slave-era on him, he has done more to show how far we've progressed then trying to prove you "own" a slave-term ever will. As my Coach, a proud African-American Man who taught his young Southern-White Boys more about Civil Rights then any "rapper" ever will, would say: "It's one thing to call your Homey, or your Friend's "Nigga" in private, but don't you dare call our President that. Show some damn sense."
*Yes, I realize he meant to say Nigga, which is appropriate slang in ghetto-trash language. However, given Jay-Z's natural speech impediment, his "ah" sound sounded more like an "er."
Conversly, given how poignant the poem was, the one read by the William Shatner-esque black woman during the inauguration, despite it's short-comings it did highlight the struggle of the African race in America. Sold into slavery by their own people in Africa to British traders who then sold them to American men as a means of cheap labor, all the while taking away their true racial identity and calling them "Nigger." I honestly find it in poor taste that Jay-Z and Jeezy's first remarks the very night of the swearing in of our first African-American President by saying: "My President is My Mother-fucking Nigger.*" I'm sorry, Obama's Kids love Hannah Montana, they were treated to a Jonas Brother's concert, whom they've professed is their favorite band. Obama, himself, has made comments which makes him a stereotype to African-American humor, the "Black man who tries too hard to be white. Whose forgotten his roots." Hell, look at Thomas Dubois, from Boondocks. He looks as if Barrack Obama had modeled for him.
Sadly, what I find most appalling with Obama's swearing in is the sudden change of terms. Do these African-American men of influence call Obama their "African-American Commander and Chief." The final proof that America is accepting and no longer racially intolerant? No. They proved how intolerant they have become by saying, "He ain't white, he ain't no chink.. He's Motherfucking Black." The last part of that sentence disheartens me the most. "Black." They're not saying he's African-AMERICAN, no. He's black. He's better than Americans, this is what they're trying to ellude to, and this does not promote racial unity. He is the first African-American President. Even if I didn't vote for him, I still take pride in that he proves that there is a unifying force in America that has hope to be nurtured and grown. That we are truly seeing each other as equals. There is no more race, it's all American. However, for an African-American entertainer to promote racial intolerance, well that's not only sad, that's irresponsible and if anyone should know better it is someone whose culture, whose people had lived through such horrors known only by the Jewish community, and those who have been forced into slavery and treated no better than as animals. What makes this situation worse is that it feeds the dregs. People like the KKK, the Ayrian Nation, other groups of that sort. They hear this and they use it for their propaganda.
Take pride, we all are. Show pride, we all have, but don't call Barrack Hussien Obama the first "Motherfucking Nigga" President. Stand proud and call him the first "African-American" President. Don't dare put a throwback to the slave-era on him, he has done more to show how far we've progressed then trying to prove you "own" a slave-term ever will. As my Coach, a proud African-American Man who taught his young Southern-White Boys more about Civil Rights then any "rapper" ever will, would say: "It's one thing to call your Homey, or your Friend's "Nigga" in private, but don't you dare call our President that. Show some damn sense."
*Yes, I realize he meant to say Nigga, which is appropriate slang in ghetto-trash language. However, given Jay-Z's natural speech impediment, his "ah" sound sounded more like an "er."