The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138368   Message #3186633
Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
13-Jul-11 - 08:49 AM
Thread Name: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Subject: RE: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Matt, I am not White. I am Chinese- how would you, as a White person sing the lyrics on the 6.15 AM post? I think that singing the chorus "Brown skin girl, stay home and mind baby" is fine for me, to me it's a "valueless colour descriptor"- some Chinese people are naturally brown-skinned- but how would you handle it and the lines quoted, with an explicit reference to the narrator's skin?