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Thread #88227   Message #1653297
Posted By: Azizi
22-Jan-06 - 02:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bush Constituent Lashes Out
Subject: RE: BS: Bush Constituent Lashes Out
I would not call this article beautiful. Thought provoking. Sad.
But imo definitely not beautiful.

It seems to me that members of every race has been socialized to accept violence against individuals and groups of people who are them and not them. I'm not sure that White people as a group are now or have been in the past more violent than non-White people. And I'm not interested in developing measures or exerting energy to test that hypothesis.

However, one of the first thoughts that came to mind when I read this article is I bet all those folks who think that race doesn't matter would have been mad as all get out if a non-White person had written it.

Also, I vehemently reject the conclusion that all of the music that "young blacks from the inner city ghettos...play in their Abrams tanks and Hummers...is the voice of a moral and spiritual vacancy, mouthing violence and obscenity to a heavy rythm track...looking for something to destroy in order to feel alive for a few minutes."

But, again, I'm not going to engage in an exchange here about that. Those who want to accept simplistic sound bites will do so regardless of the truth of the matter.