Do some Black people use racial slurs? Yep. I never said we didn't. {clarification-I don't]. But I did write that I was limiting my discussion...and basically I wanted to share that what White people don't know may hurt them {or cause them to hurt others}...
And I limited my points to racial no nos in music [since this is a music forum though I understand that I posted the thread in the BS section].
There are a whole host of non-music racial no nos that White people may or may not know with regard to Black people. But I don't have the energy-at least at this time-to go there.
It's too bad we don't have more people of color who post here [Black, Latino, Asian, Indian/Mative American, First Nation, who ever]. It would have been interesting to see how the conversation would have flowed.
And if someone wanted to start a thread on Racial no nos that Black people should know about so as not to be offensive to White people, I certainly would read it and comment if the spirit moved me to do so.
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weelittledrummer, you wrote "there are enough serious things to get steamed up about - it just amazes me that there isn't a thread about more obvious injustices - the way there is a large unrepresentatively large number of black people on death row say - as opposed to getting angry about a song of very questionable offensiveness - and certainly not included as an act of malice."
I'm not angry. This thread is not limited to Pick A Bale of Cotton. And I never said that I thought that singing it-in the context of that school recital that got all the publicity- was an act of malice. As a matter of fact, I said just the opposite on this thread or/and? on the other thread that specifically focuses on that song. And do I think that song is offensive, given that context-yes.
And weelittledrummer, as I'm sure you know, you can start a thread just as easily as I can about "more obvious injustices".