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Website: Arthur J. Graham, Ph.D. http://www.subliminalracism.com/JIMP.html

the guy in the polo, he’s clearly up to something… hahahaha

for real, I know what it means to be judged by the way you look and dress. I don’t get judged by the colour of my skin; but because I’m interracial and people don’t realise I get the pseudo-correct racist comments that white folks are supposed to agree on.

The problem is, with my cousins, my friends etc. I can see how hard it can be for them when even though they are all respectable, employed, educated people, they still are judged on the basis of their skin colour.

I’ve had full-blood indian friends tell me they feel dirty with their black skin in a white culture. This from a guy whose cultural background in Australia it basically without controversy, in a country where all the immigration comes from 220 years ago at most. Now imagine what that does for Aboriginal kids? Imagine what the current subliminal racism in America and the residual effects of the overt racism of only 60 years ago do to inner-city ghetto kids.

Personally, I look up to 50 Cent more than I look up to these other people. He has worked hard, is talented and entrepreneurial; the essence of American capitalism (including the violence). I’m surprised the Republican party hasn’t embraced him. The problem is where his music and other gangsta rap etc. reinforces the attitude of violence in marginalised black communities.

However, music on a populist level tends to reflect reality. It is only music for the ruling classes that has the propagandistic beauty we find in so much classical. The war chants of the armies of Sparta would not have been arias; the Picts of the British Isles had lyrics that were rude and brutal. Without the violent reality; the imagery loses its impact. So the only way is to find a way to offer hope to these kids in these marginalised and down-trodden situations.

I use to work at Wal-mart a long time ago and there was a young black man that I worked with, he always had something to say about “the man” holding him down and keeping him there. I had enough one day and when he came in the breakroom and spewed his words of oppression I stopped him and said ” What makes you thik that you are no longer a slave?” He paused and looked at me. I said ” Please tell me when you stopped being a slave? Do you punch a time clock? Do you have to stay here and do as you are told for the hours that you are here?”. He said yes. I said then we are all slaves to the same thing, and that is to make ends meat, to get the things we need to survive. And the same people that owned you then own all of the middle and lower class now. I said my family worked right beside yours in the fields except we did not pick cotton we picked tobacco. I said and the chinese came and built our railroads. He looked at me and he hugged me and said I have never thought of it that way.

I do not have problems with people of different skin colors. I have a problem with lazy people that take from everyone else by using the welfare system. As long as people procreate they will not end racism, its the one thing that the human kind fall back on to prove a point and that goes for all colors and types of people (stereotypes included).

P.S. The title is what drew me to it. First sight of it made me think it was something negative but it’s not at all its positive and I’m glad I was curious enough to read it.
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