Someone on here a few months ago said “if you don’t support Black Lives Matter then you shouldn’t be listening to rap music”

Hit me deep

Thank you this really does make me feel better ❤️

I dont know how true this is when the black struggle is really interwoven in the music, you get what I mean?

Maybe less so these days

EXACTLY

This country was built on racism

The lawyers, doctors, senators, CEOS, directors, policemen, high ranking military influencers, judges, label owners, publications & damn near everything is predominantly white

Most of those positions are held by racist white people from the mid 1900s

How is it racist?

Are you Jewish?

How is saying a ethnic minority group is powerful and get their wants taken care of because they focused on getting position of power racist?

Believe it or not, black people in the United States have no political or economic power. At least not enough to have issues pertaining to them. If more black people started trying to strive for positions of economic and political power (cops, DA, lawyer, financial advisors and other jobs in the finance industry...) you would see things start to change for black people in America.

What does this even mean

They can listen to the music and not support or acknowledge the black struggle

Just like how Music section threads have hundreds of pages but the Ahmaud thread has 13

There has been a couple threads about "which rapper would be the first to get corona". And a couple threads joking about rappers dying with the virus. From the avis to the blatant disrespect its obvious the lives of black entertainers is like a meme to most of the posters here.

ktt2.com/which-rapper-gonna-get-corona-first-43735

What's your opinion on black music artists that don't really get involved in helping the cause or rarely discuss anything regarding our struggle

when black people have gained collective power in the past, what happened?

Idk tbh

They’re part of the problem

I think most big artists don’t speak on those issues because of how people of other cultures and backgrounds are now intergrated in hip hop culture/black art

Hip hop/black music has become so diverse the average fan is white or POC

Some artists are more focused on potentially alienating/losing their fans than the community

facts

yeah obviously

Civil rights movement happened. That can be considered the peak of the black middle class in the USA. I know black people have gained more wealth since then but the unity, mindset of upward mobility, and taking care of our own is completely gone. Crack era did away with that..

I know about black wall street and what happened in rosewood Florida but niggas wouldn’t allow stuff like that to happen now... too many guns

This is just an outsiders perspective but I think a lot of people care about black issues. White people wouldnt listen to it if they wouldnt care. It is just the people in charge who dont.

Also wouldnt it be worse if people werent listening to Hip Hop at all cause you would loose your voice in a way. Not that it helps much but many people in Europe wouldnt know about the situation of black people without hip hop.

Lol they were f***ing killed or labeled terrorists (Black Panther party)

People don’t even know about the Black Wall Street Massacre

They were a group of successful black entrepreneurs and business owners that were slaughtered by the KKK for just for being successful

It’s a sad state

Just Look at tik tok. White suburban girls getting 40 million hits for a 6 sec video of them doing a dance created by black people off the streets of Atlanta

The majority of Y'all ain't give af about us untill decades after desegregation (1964)

Pretty much most y'all didn't start caring till we started becoming some of the greatest entertainers on the planet

They dont even teach black history in most schools

Nah we just have more of a voice now thanks to how quickly information moves thanks to social media

It's quite embarrassing to see society behaving this way, vulturing off black culture and treating it as some zoo. Add to the fact some of them aren't friends or around with black people

Yeah they do. They teach us bout the woman who sat on the back of the bus and the guy who made a bunch of stuff with peanuts

Bruh thats kinda the problem people should be aware of the tradgedies going we been havin these problems since the country started but everybody only care now that they can dance to it

Dont forget that one guy with the dream