But how can you have a conversation if you're excluding those people you want to discuss it with? We get it...we get what the album was about who it was made by, who's perspective it's coming from and who it's geared toward. No one is disagreeing with you.
But you're complaining that we can't have a discussion when you're just pouting and excluding people who need to take part in the discussion.
Or is this a discussion that should take place between only blacks?
What's wrong with being excluded in this type of discussion? Is it that harmful to step back and just listen for a minute? Certain people don't NEED to take part in the discussion. Those people - for once in their lives - need to listen to the perspective of others without jumping in and immediately making the subject about themselves.
I think if some people took things less like a personal attack and more like a teaching moment - this stuff would be a lot more beneficial to everyone.
These aren't shots at you specifically but in general. Even non-white people. Asians, latinos, indians, etc. There's a ridiculous amount of anti-blackness in those cultures. I'm Dominican. A large percentage of Dominicans are black and it STILL exists. So yeah - sometimes it's best to just give black people space and try to learn from a talk like this. Even if you're not intentionally racist, even if you enjoy the music, even if you're also a minority.
), where race didn't matter and we could just discuss things without placing a certain value on opinions based on anything other than the words written.
