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Halloween and "cultural appropriation".
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<blockquote data-quote="Ken-1122" data-source="post: 75535140" data-attributes="member: 277047"><p>Are you making the point that only a small percentage of black people make it in the entertainment industry? Only a small percentage of white people make it as well; what’s your point?</p><p> </p><p>If you care, you can do a count of all the people in the entertainment industry and see how many are black vs white. I personally don’t care because I’m happy with the number; however if you are not satisfied, feel free to count and let me know what you come up with.</p><p></p><p>Doesn’t mean they will be either.</p><p> </p><p>I didn’t say “<em>absolute representation</em>” those are your words. (talking about straw manning) You speak as if you know how most white people judge black people.</p><p> </p><p>I don’t believe there is such a thing as a white hegemony in this country because white people are too diverse in their beliefs, ideas, and standards. If all white people believed, thought, and acted as one, you might have a point; but that is not the case.</p><p></p><p>Systemic racism (if it actually existed) or even racism has little to do with black people coming up short in America. 95% of our problems are self inflicted. Why do you think black people who migrate to America from Africa, Caribbean's, and other parts of the world, for 2 generations will out preform black people who are decedents of slaves in education, and income? As I said before, our problem is culture; not racism, but nobody wants to talk about that.</p><p> </p><p>Don’t assume that because I don’t obsess over the racism of the past, that I haven’t studied, learned, or have knowledge of it; and don’t assume that because I don’t agree with your belief of the role it plays in the predicament my people find ourselves in today, that somehow this disagreement is based on ignorance.</p><p>I suspect the fact that you live in the South and I live in the West, and we deal with the people we live around, this may have a lot to do with our different opinions concerning racial issues in this country.</p><p></p><p>No more than they can be applied to many of the roles white women play. There are plenty of white actresses who play the motherly type, (Sandra Bullock from the move <em>The blind side comes</em> to mind) there are plenty who play the “hot head/quick tempered, (Fatal Attraction comes to mind) and plenty who play the traitor/cheater (Linsey Lohan from the movie <em>Mean Girls</em> comes to mind). This applies to all actor/actress; regardless of race or gender. The fact that you would criticize when black women do it but look the other way thus giving them a pass when white women do it is telling to say the least.</p><p></p><p>No more than they can be applied to white men.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ken-1122, post: 75535140, member: 277047"] Are you making the point that only a small percentage of black people make it in the entertainment industry? Only a small percentage of white people make it as well; what’s your point? If you care, you can do a count of all the people in the entertainment industry and see how many are black vs white. I personally don’t care because I’m happy with the number; however if you are not satisfied, feel free to count and let me know what you come up with. Doesn’t mean they will be either. I didn’t say “[I]absolute representation[/I]” those are your words. (talking about straw manning) You speak as if you know how most white people judge black people. I don’t believe there is such a thing as a white hegemony in this country because white people are too diverse in their beliefs, ideas, and standards. If all white people believed, thought, and acted as one, you might have a point; but that is not the case. Systemic racism (if it actually existed) or even racism has little to do with black people coming up short in America. 95% of our problems are self inflicted. Why do you think black people who migrate to America from Africa, Caribbean's, and other parts of the world, for 2 generations will out preform black people who are decedents of slaves in education, and income? As I said before, our problem is culture; not racism, but nobody wants to talk about that. Don’t assume that because I don’t obsess over the racism of the past, that I haven’t studied, learned, or have knowledge of it; and don’t assume that because I don’t agree with your belief of the role it plays in the predicament my people find ourselves in today, that somehow this disagreement is based on ignorance. I suspect the fact that you live in the South and I live in the West, and we deal with the people we live around, this may have a lot to do with our different opinions concerning racial issues in this country. No more than they can be applied to many of the roles white women play. There are plenty of white actresses who play the motherly type, (Sandra Bullock from the move [I]The blind side comes[/I] to mind) there are plenty who play the “hot head/quick tempered, (Fatal Attraction comes to mind) and plenty who play the traitor/cheater (Linsey Lohan from the movie [I]Mean Girls[/I] comes to mind). This applies to all actor/actress; regardless of race or gender. The fact that you would criticize when black women do it but look the other way thus giving them a pass when white women do it is telling to say the least. No more than they can be applied to white men. [/QUOTE]
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