From Kelley Hackett Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 14:03
From Kelley Hackett Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 14:03
Its quite good that another caucasian sees this Salient, indispensable point. For they didnt know that U where white, too. I wonder if that Bitch ass Tom is sucking on that Boot hes trying to lift off the ground.......... Laerm, looks like your ass got it too. Let me stay out of it though, cuz he can teach U, I'll just flame ya with those assinine comments! Multsanta, whoever U R, keep teaching these "Open minded people will ya. Thanks! H-2 tha Muthafuckn k! > -----Original Message----- > From: mtheulthetant [SMTP:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:17 AM > To: laerm; xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: Re: (idm) Trip Hop You Don't Stop > > >hey, anyone wanna buy my hip-hop, jazz, dub, blues, and techno music > >collections? apparently my pervasive whiteness says i can't own these > >records anymore. something about "misappropriation of culture"... > > obviously you're missing my point. i NEVER implied that white people > can't > listen to these genres. i'm white, i still enjoy these genre. race is not > an issue at all, it's CULTURE. my problem is when this music is > specifically watered down by suburbanites for suburban consumption. if > you're going to partake in other cultures, please have respect for the > culture. When someone feels a need to steal this culture and water it > down > to make it more palatable for people of your own culture, that's sucks. > I still don't understand how you could have gotten the racial impression > from my previous post. > > and just to clarify, i have no problem with, say, much of the Mo' Wax > roster, Shadow, Vibert, Ninja Tuners, because these are people who are > doing it out of respect for hip hop, the problem enlies in the 'scene' > that > was spawned, mainly from Mo' Wax and 'Endtroducing', where it was deemed > profitable to water down hip hop into a pigeon hole.