Why do Punjabi people who sing Bhangra act like black rap artists and put blacks in their videos?
I am Punjabi and I take offense to this very much. What is the reason Punjabi people think they have to act like black people and act like they are rap artists. Punjabis are not black they are caucasian and bhangra should only be pure bhangra. But why do people liek jazzy B and a lot of othr Bhangra artists like to act like black men and also put black men in their videos intermixing with Punjabi girls. I think it really is disgusting and a disgrace this is done. Maybe some Punjabis really want to be black. But whatever the case is I think the Punjabi people who are doing this really are lowering their class. I only like pure bhangra from Punjab with no rap at all. Stop trying to be black and also when you do that you are taking away from bhangra and making trash it is no longer pure then.
Does gangsta rap harm black americans?
I'm doing a research project on gangsta rap and if it harms black americans. I believe that it does because black gangsta rappers are all over the media. In their raps they talk about how great their lifestyle of big houses and money and cars can be and it causes young black americans to want to live up to that lifestyle. These media icons are some of the only "role models" that blacks can look up to in certain areas. ** another side note in which i have noticed previously is that if a black male or female does not dress, talk, or act in that certain way, they are considered as not even black. Or like "the whitest black kid ever". I feel that the blacks in certain areas can relate to some of the famous rappers upbringings, and would like to follow in their lead, in order to achieve that lifestyles of the money and the cars. - it is also very degerading, sometimes violent, and simply disturbing. Let me know your views. Thanks=]
Why do some people link between black people and criminals?
The MEDIA. When you look at the news on television, local crime reports are full of images of Black men wanted for some crime, or Black men captured for some crime. (Whereas they don't too much show the white males that commit and are arrested for crimes). Fear sells, and seeing a Black man arrested makes some people think they can sleep easily at night. Especially when historically, the stereotype embedded in our brains is that Black people are lazy, untrustworthy, and unintelligent. Do your own research. Go into a local store and watch how the sales person watches the Black person that comes in, and not so much the white person. Look at the news articles with mugshots of some Black person looking "sinister". Racism is an integral part of this society. Regardless of how so-called "enlightened" we supposedly have become. As long as a white person can commit a crime and blame a Black man for it, as long as music executives grow rich off of some young Black man or woman singing about committing some crime to get rich (and putting out a music video of it) all the while sneering for the camera, that image will remain. LM
Do blacks cause racism to be worse when they attack people for making jokes that aren't meant to be racist?
Dave K, the definition of a racist is the belief that one race is superior to the other. If Don Imus does not believe this then it would be impossible to make a racist remark. Jesse, Al and the gang need to understand this. A person who is genuinely not a racist can not make a racist remark. They can make insensative and stupid remarks but not racist!
Why do so many black people worship Tupac when he was a pedophile rapist?
He sodomized an underaged girl and tore her anus and did it against her will. Why do black people think he was a great person when he was just the typical thug but with money and was famous from his (c)rapping. Most black people hate good blacks like Dr. Ben Carson but worship thugs like Tupac, and martyr thugs like Michael Brown.
Is #Black Lives Matter a good movement or not?
BLM is a set of young inexperienced activists with very little credibility with regard to their ability to actually reform the agencies who are the targets of their protests and propaganda. They are reasonably good at making a spectacle of themselves, but I have yet to see anything they have done to actually help people in various parts of the nation where there are acute problems, to solve those problems. This is not a lack of talent that is unique to them, there are plenty of loud but ineffective activist movements in the US, and there will continue to be. I would suggest that at some point BLM will get a candidate elected to Congress. If and when they can do that, then they can be taken seriously at a national level. Right now, it is not clear to me that they have elected so much as a city councilman anywhere. I have heard that their national leader is running for Mayor of Baltimore, but I don't think he's quite crafty enough to be even as electable as Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit. Even Jesse Jackson Jr. got into Congress before he got into prison. Now America is a very very big country. This country is the home of both Muhammad Ali and John Allen Muhammad. So any time people expect something particular out of black Americans, they fail to realize how big this country is. So when it comes to black politics, it comes as no surprise that we have a President at the top and street loudmouths at the bottom. So anyone who feels offended to hear that BLM doesn't matter, well that says more about their simple minded definition of 'black' than of 42 million Americans. I suppose there will always be fools who believe a country this mighty, sophisticated and massive can be directed by noisemakers in the streets. They will always be countermanded by citizens who understand the legal system and the exercise of democratic institutional power from cities to counties to states. So. Regardless of their goals, if BLM fails to use democratic institutional power instead of just getting its face on TV and YouTube, then it is a failure and such movements *should* fail. If snatching the mic from candidate Bernie Sanders is typical of what their political strategies are, then they are doomed.
Does rap music do more harm than good to African American community?
Rap serves the same purposes that "bread and circuses" served in Ancient Rome.