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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]small potatoes. I worry that people are talking about old-fashion songs that no one sings instead of more important things.

Black people are being undereducated. Black people don’t have job opportunities or ways to move up. There is too much drug addiction, poverty, poor health care and environmental contamination in our poor communities.

Controversy over old songs? Shrug.  It’s a side show that diverts from big picture. [/quote]

I get what you're saying, but I think it also serves to illustrate how deeply imbedded this stuff is. It's literally everywhere. It's important for white people to have their eyes opened because so many of them still want to say racism is over, we fixed it with integration, stop whining.

Racism goes so deep into our culture and institutions that you've been singing racist minstrel songs to your children and showing them blackface influenced cartoons, and you didn't even know it. Maybe then it's possible that this racism stuff goes deeper than you thought and really does exist in places and in ways you didn't see. [/quote]

There’s a difference between racism existing in a current song and racism existing in an early iteration of a song, 70+ years ago. People don’t see it because it’s not there any more. [/quote]

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