Im Hotep,



Last evening I managed tocatch the last twenty minutes of "America's Got Talent". I don't know ifit is called the same thingin England, but I assume it's a knock-off of some program from the UK. The show features Americans doing whatever thing they think shows their talent. They are competing for one million dollars.

One of the last acts to perform was an 11 year old white girl. Before she went onstage, she told the interviewer that she was "a Black woman in a white girl's body". She walked out onstage and sang Jennifer Holiday's "And I am Telling You." She did a good job with the song, especially for such a young girl (though I think the song was too mature for a child to be singing). When she was finished, the singer Brandy who is a judge on the show stood up and was clapping and praising her to the high heavens. But I was unimpressed.

Every time a cracker wants to think they are sounding good, they try to imitate Black culture. If she had gone up onstage speaking with a fake Mexican accent, people would have been appalled. But Black culture is apparently a grab bag for everyone to stick their nasty hands in. I KNOW that Black singers are the standard for what is good, hot, etc. However, our music is integral to our history and our culture and when we raise little mini-crackers to think that they can MAKE BLACK MUSIC, we end up with situations like Eminem, a filthy cave man rapping about how much Black women suck. That little culture vultureis not part of our culture. This is why everyone is so damned confused. Every part of our culture is being diluted and itis losing its soul.

Are you impressed when you see a non-Afrikan acting Black? Does it make you feel that they are somehow "down" with you? Or do you take it as a complement to your style? Is it a complement that a great and mighty cracker has blessed you by exploiting your heritage?

Sa Nuba

if you take the view that europeans have been stealing our knowledge/artefacts for centuries than this aint new.

we should never be impressed by whites imitating us especially the most ignorant an negative aspects of our cultures.

HatHaruhotep wrote:

It's all of the above.

You see, and not many people know this, but I happen to be of those ‘nice’, ‘loveable’ black folk who believe that our value to the human race cannot be assured without the ‘approval’ and ‘ratification’ of whites. It is they, and they alone who have the authority, (due to they superior knowledge of such matters) to say what is and is not good in ‘the world of black people’, and hence only they can proclaim what is worthy. In fact, personally, I am very unlikely to form an opinion or make a judgement on anything pertaining to black culture without first paying mind to the views. Furthermore, anything that questions or threatens their very valued position in my life is likely to receive condemnation from me.


The sad fact is that they are not enough free and sensible thinking blacks like me who can appreciate this indisputable fact. Instead you find many so-called ‘conscious’ black people who make the quite laughable suggestion that we have a culture that can be held up as an example to all. Really? Have white people said that? If they haven’t how can it be true?


You would not believe the amount of arguments I have had with such fools who seem incapable of grasping the simple truth and logic which says “we black people are not capable of determining what is worthy, what is right or wrong, or even what it is we experienced, without reference to ‘the white perspective’. Tell me how can we come to a reasonable conclusion on anything without taking heed of the ‘white perspective’? Pray tell, what other perspective is there?


This story of the little princess (don’t call her cracker that is so upsetting and not nice for it shows disrespect for a people that have given us so much) is very uplifting because it is yet more ‘confirmation’ of the ‘worth’ of our black culture.

Admit it, doesn’t it make you feel all warm and cosy inside to know white people want to emulate us? And isn’t it so satisfying to know that they can be just like us and become more prosperous, make lots and lots of greenbacks from copying us? In fact far much more than we can make by simply being……well….us.


Respect

HatHaruhotep wrote: Kinda makes me want to grab my stick of deserved righteousness (or bat) and knock the shit out of of them.

Nothing is more racist to me than someone coming up to you trying to imitate a supposed AA or African way of doing something.

Heck Hat you could have named the dude who won American Idol of the KING of R&B THEFT Michael Bolton.

safetyblitz wrote:
Every time I see thatcat it feels like someone is scratching a chalk board.

What I hate is the fact they stand to make more money then us precisely because they are white.

They've always been at it: Peggy Lee, Elvis Presley, UB40, Justin Timberlake ...

Some of you guys are so racist.

You've got no right condemning other people for things which you yoursleves are guilty.Blacks supposedly should know better.


Stop the racial hate… only you can help you.

HatHaruhotep wrote: That's such atired, hackneyed, and slavish response... you bore me.

If some of you people can't see that it is YOU that help keep racism alive and well in the world then that is your problem and your misfortune.You are guilty of what you condemn and in my book that make you a HYPOCRITE.

zaghawa wrote:
Well then why don't you tell us exactly howwe are keeping racism alive by not allowing white people to go on with their sterotypical bullshit. Lol!!! Apparently if you're not kissing whitey's flat arse, and allowing him to rape your culturethen you're keeping racism alive.