*sigh* Where do I begin? I guess people will do anything for money at this point. Actually, that has been the reality since currency has ever been created. I just don't understand how money can cause an individual to sell out to their own race. I can honestly say that I'm currently partially ashamed to be black. Don't get me wrong, I love my people but when they display themselves in such minstrel manners it just makes me turn the other cheek. It pisses me off! I guess I should have included the video in the previous post in this post as well because people really need to get their asses handed to them. Society has conditioned and brainwashed the African-American community so much that the people of that group don't even notice it. I just got off the phone with my boyfriend, who told me to watch the "Baraka Flacka" video, and we were talking about how ignorant people are to not know when they're being treated like a lab rat. "I go hard in the motherfuckin paint!" - what the hell does that mean?! I'm sure some "smart ass" will try to explain it to me. One fan of the song would more than likely say, "I don't know but that shit goes hard in the club!!" Exactly. That's where "they" want to keep you, in the club illiterate to all the information around you. In reference to the video/parody Waka Flocka was not a fan of it. How ironic:
"That they used it to be so sarcastic, it was almost a form of disrespect,” he said. He shared it on Twitter, though only to “let other people see how ignorant other people can be,” he asserted, not wholly convincingly. His manager, Debra Antney (who is also his mother), said she called up the influential hip-hop video site WorldstarHipHop.com to have the clip removed, to no avail. “That’s not a positive image for us, period, as African-Americans, where we came from, where we’re going today,” she said.
They really have the nerve to say all that, right?
I don't know, situations like this just make me rethink my whole career in music. I love Hip Hop and to see it be disrespected and exploited like this is disappointing and somewhat saddening. Reverting back to the money aspect I brought up earlier, I feel like entertainers such as Waka Flocka, Nicki Minaj, Gucci Mane, and Lil B, who recently admitted that he would f*ck Kanye West in the ass *smh*, are getting paid to be minstrel acts. I feel like they're putting on 'black face' to not only their black audiences but more specifically white audiences as well blatantly showing how low they would go for some cash. Now, from the excerpts I've heard from the interviews of Nicki Minaj she sounds like she's intelligent. I see comments from her past fans on blogs saying how much she has changed and how they liked her better way back when...
Society purposely gives these individuals attention just so they can be pigeonholed and demeaned. I remember watching the Spike Lee film Bamboozled some years ago and what I see in mainstream music and the media today just reminds me of how one would go to the extent of losing their pride and dignity for some coins! Don't let me get into Antoine Dodson. Whoever doesn't read into his situation and see the obvious exploitation (*ahem* bullshit) needs to be slapped. What the hell was BET thinking bringing him on the awards show this year? Then again, that is BET. The African American community just needs a wake up call. We finally have a black president. Now, that's a positive but with all this negativity in other aspects of the black community people tend to forget how far we've come.
I'm gonna stop right here before I write a 10-page essay. But seriously, people need to stop living inside of a bubble and wake the hell up.
