You Don’t Hate Black Culture, You Hate Black People.
New Year. Same smoke for anti-blackness.
Last year, I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of black folks claiming to be done with black culture. Not enough to take seriously, but enough for me have something to write about. I’m calling bull on their attention seeking stance. A lot of them are as easy to read as they are to simp for non-black approval. Most of their “issues” with the culture stem from their own anti-blackness and their self-imposed second-hand embarrassment when “black degeneracy” is on public display.
Let’s Talk About the Music.
To be a fair judge of character, I’ve read, listened to and watched enough viewpoints from black folks who say they are “done” with the culture, and many, if not all always bring up rap music as one of their reasons. I’m not sharing links to these garbage takes because fuck them. When I said “black people get free promo,” I didn’t mean all. You don’t get to hide your anti-blackness behind “preferences” and then use your black skin for “free clout” from someone who doesn’t hate themselves, their people or their culture despite our shared disagreements with it. They’ll point to entertainers like “Sexxy Red” and others like her to demonize an entire community and genre of music all because they care more about what White, Asian and Latin people say about them. You ought to be a shame of yourself if you think like this. Not because the color of your skin, but the stupidity of your brain. I don’t mean to pick on Sexxy Redd or Bossman Deelo types but they are just one side of rap/hip-hop music, not all of it. When people do this, they intentionally undermine black Hip-Hop artist like Rapsody, Common, J. Cole, Blu, Dee-1, Speech DaBelle and many more. I’m not saying these artist are the “anti-ratchet” rappers, they’re just drastically different from what some categorize as “ratchet,” “drill” or “ghetto music.” These lames know this and choose to be intellectually disingenuous about it because those artist don’t have the mass white appeal mainstream rappers have, outside of J. Cole.
Dancing for White Approval.
Sticking to the discussion of black music and entertainment, I’ve noticed these so called “anti-degenerate” black folks tend to sing and dance a whole different tune when their non-black friends (which is all of their friends, except the one who is a quarter black) express interest in the same type of music/entertainment that is synonymous with black culture. Now all of the sudden it’s “fun” to be black. It’s no different than the black woman who hate compliments about their natural hair from black men, but it makes their year when a white man asks to touch it. This doesn’t expose a damn thing about the culture or the people, but it does expose a lot about the individual who thinks and acts this way. Don’t you dare respond to this naming Drake, Juice Wrld or some other rapper who OD’d as proof that you don’t hate black people. Your argument is black culture celebrates degeneracy and your favorite artist promote drug abuse… and DRRRAAAAAKE?! You mean the man who took every opportunity to be seen with Sexxy Red, your archenemy? The same Drake who didn’t grow up in or around gang culture but throws up “blood” gang signs and claims to have mob ties, pays niggas to be around him to make him look tough, pays fake niggas around him to act tough? Him? That Drake? You mean the Drake who Mimics accents far from his, especially black Caribbean accents? Your Rap God is a man who wants to be accepted by the culture you claim to be against.
I will end this piece the same way it began, by calling your bluff. It’s not the culture you hate, it’s yourself.
