Who would've thought the Unabomber would give me different perspective on how I view race?
For shits and giggles I was reading the Unabomber's manifesto and came across this passage:
Officially on the record, I'm black and grew up in Oakland in the 1980s. At least before we hightailed it for the suburbs.
At work today I was jamming out to The Isley Brother's "Who's That Lady?" (video below) and I thought how I wouldn't be caught dead listening to anything with a guitar when I was growing up.
Because guitars and rock music were something "other people" did.
Because "real" black people listened to rap.
Because we were so all deathly afraid and hyper vigilant about not "acting white."![[Image: confused.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/confused.gif)
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Looking back that whole attitude has to be one of the DUMBEST mindsets to INFECT our community at the time.
Especially considering the black influence on the musical landscape in the United States. Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock & Roll. And then in the 80s, two generations after our forefathers helped create the art form we then decide that in order to assert our "true" blackness that we must REJECT it wholesale?
I feel cheated and duped out of my cultural heritage.
Instead of a new generation of rockers being bred in the inner cities, we now get... Lil' Wayne??? Wiz Khalifa???
And what about the mindset that in order to assert who YOU ARE that you must define yourself IN OPPOSITION to someone else. Looking back I think this is a ghetto mindset. I certainly didn't grow up in the ghetto, but went to school with those that did. Essentially I think the attitude is, "You don't like us? You think we're pieces of shit? Ok, we don't like you!"
And everything the ghetto mindsetters associate with the dominant group will become stigmatized. Thus, rejecting OUR OWN CULTURAL HERITAGE instead of celebrating it.
Ridiculous.
Enjoy some good music.
For shits and giggles I was reading the Unabomber's manifesto and came across this passage:
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The leftists will reply that the
last thing they want is to make the black man into a copy of the white
man; instead, they want to preserve African American culture. But in
what does this preservation of African American culture consist? It
can hardly consist in anything more than eating black-style food,
listening to black-style music, wearing black-style clothing and going
to a black-style church or mosque. In other words, it can express
itself only in superficial matters. In all ESSENTIAL respects more
leftists of the oversocialized type want to make the black man conform
to white, middle-class ideals.
Officially on the record, I'm black and grew up in Oakland in the 1980s. At least before we hightailed it for the suburbs.
At work today I was jamming out to The Isley Brother's "Who's That Lady?" (video below) and I thought how I wouldn't be caught dead listening to anything with a guitar when I was growing up.
Because guitars and rock music were something "other people" did.
Because "real" black people listened to rap.
Because we were so all deathly afraid and hyper vigilant about not "acting white."
![[Image: confused.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/confused.gif)
![[Image: confused.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/confused.gif)
![[Image: confused.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/confused.gif)
Looking back that whole attitude has to be one of the DUMBEST mindsets to INFECT our community at the time.
Especially considering the black influence on the musical landscape in the United States. Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock & Roll. And then in the 80s, two generations after our forefathers helped create the art form we then decide that in order to assert our "true" blackness that we must REJECT it wholesale?
I feel cheated and duped out of my cultural heritage.
Instead of a new generation of rockers being bred in the inner cities, we now get... Lil' Wayne??? Wiz Khalifa???
And what about the mindset that in order to assert who YOU ARE that you must define yourself IN OPPOSITION to someone else. Looking back I think this is a ghetto mindset. I certainly didn't grow up in the ghetto, but went to school with those that did. Essentially I think the attitude is, "You don't like us? You think we're pieces of shit? Ok, we don't like you!"
And everything the ghetto mindsetters associate with the dominant group will become stigmatized. Thus, rejecting OUR OWN CULTURAL HERITAGE instead of celebrating it.
Ridiculous.
Enjoy some good music.