Semantics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerohero
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Semantics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerohero
I think maru and gozen have read up on this, but racism is only as old as the theory of evolution.
It was bolstered up by the rich to give them a excuse to justify the power they had in a time when people were no longer buying into the old excuses. It was shit like "well I have a right to be rich because my genetics put me in a position to be rich. And I have a right to lead because my genetics put me in a position of power."
The book is really about how middle to lower class blacks and whites need to stop fighting each other and get on with the REAL inequality of classism. Sometimes it does come off as a blue collar dude whining, but if you read past those parts it's a very good book. I guarantee it'll tell you a few things about both sides you'd probably have been better off not knowing.
Jim Gould was the editor of a VERY controversial zine in the 90's called "Answer Me!" if you're interested in finding out more about him.
Kind of like how Chappelle said to spin he was stopping his show because white people ruined it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerohero
I'm pretty sure he said he stopped the show because of the preasure. At least thats what he said on Oprah.
I thought he said he hated the people that he worked with. They would want him to do certain things that he felt discrimitory being black. And still, he never said I stopped the show cause of dem there Crackers. So that statement doesn't fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spent
have you read the letter?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerohero
it pretty much accused everyone white of being like stupid college mildly racist frat boys.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...appelle+show+l
I remember hearing that he didn't write that letter.
I've yet to meet a white guy who gets mad at being called a cracker. The word just has no meaning or power behind it. Probably because in the last (at least) five hundred years the black people have had no power over the white. I think that's one of the reasons nigger is such a inflammatory word, there is a power behind it. It means more than just ignorant or whatever the textbook definition is. It means that for a couple hundred of years I was able to treat you as less than an animal. That you couldn't do anything unless I said you could. It meant that I could take your wife or daughter and have my way with them any time I wanted, and there was nothing you could do because frankly you just don't matter.
It means more when someone socially above you disparages you. If someone below you calls you something, who cares? Call me what you want, I still own your ass and can whip the shit out of you. That attitude still carries on to this day.
So I'm in the camp that says Chris Rock could say anything he wanted to in a non joke way and very little would come of it. It'd just be "there goes another crazy black dude." There would be no public outcry and the story would be buried the next day.
I heard the same thing. Kramer loses because that shit just plain wasn't funny. Plus, if you can't handle hecklers then you shouldn't be a comedian. I have seen both Dave Chapelle and Carlos Mencia live and they both handled hecklers by owning the shit out of them. They didn't resort to playground racial slurs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Edit: Letter was written by a columnist.
http://www.popmatters.com/columns/harris/060411.shtml