Is it wrong that I like to watch people put on make-up, even though I have no desire to wear any? I found this girl yesterday, I think her name is Leesha and so far, I really like her! She's so cute! I like the way she talks and she reminds me of a young Shirley MacClaine/Cyndi Lauper.
CHECK HER OUT!
I know I wrote about that "typically black" mess and how it's bullshit, but I realized that black people are the main ones setting up that "typically black" mess in the first. I mean, isn't that about 95% of every black comedian's material? "Black people do that, white people do this"?
A lot of black people seem to be twisted up on the fact that some other black people "act white" or do "white things". For instance, some black bloggers got bent out of shape over Jay-Z and Lil Wayne playing guitars and trying to be "rock 'n roll". As I mentioned before, with artists such as Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Tina Turner, Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, and others, how can black musicians be pigeonholed into one or two categories of music? In this day and age, how can a black person be expected to just listen to one or two categories? I listen to absolutely EVERYTHING, (well, everything that doesn't suck), does that mean I'm not black?
Why is it when black men get some sense and clean up the way they dress, they are in turn called "suspect"? Well, maybe I'm in the minority here, but it seems a whole helluva lot more suspect to watch a grown man shuffle around with his pants hanging off his ass, emulating a trend that came from prison bitches. Why can't guys like Kanye West, Andre 3000, and Pharrell Williams wear the clothes they want and express themselves without the "these niggas faggin'" bullshit?
It's like, why do black people want to be held down by culture restrictions? All this "black people can't/don't do that" bullshit is very irritating and it's truly sad when people who look like you want to oppress you. We've come too far as a people to hold each other down.
There are different strokes for different folks and "different folks" does not mean "different colors of people" but "people in general".
SIDE NOTE: I really don't like the phrase "African American". It's so ignorantly politically correct. First of all, Africa is not a country, but a continent, so for someone to be "African American" would be like someone being "North American"; it just doesn't make sense. Second, I've never been to any part of Africa in my life, let alone be born there, so for me to be African-American doesn't make sense since I was born and raised in the United States of America and ergo, I am American. I understand that America is a huge melting pot and we want to acknowledge the different types of cultures without being offensive, but let's not be ridiculously ignorant. And most of the time, the acknowledgment feels like a label being put on people. When you feel out a job application, why do they need to know what you are before they set up the interview, anyway?
A year ago when I had a MySpace page, before Tom's bitch ass deleted it for no goddamn reason and didn't enough have the goddamn decency to tell me that he did, I would frequently browse through some pages, mostly of my "friends". I visited one of my "friend"'s and in the "About Me" box, either they started with the line or it was at least the second, with "I'm not a typical black person." and immediately, fury rose in me. "JUST WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?", was one of the things I remember thinking. "I'm not a typical black person," HUH? What does that statement mean? What or who is a typical black person?
Then, a few days ago, Liz was on YouTube watching a video for an artist named Santogold. She was scrolling through some of the comments and someone left one that said, "I like her, she's different from other Black female singers. Like the fact that she doesn't sing typical black music." Again, JUST WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?! With black artists like Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Andre 3000, Alicia Keyes, Erykah Badu, Gnarls Barkley (Cee-lo), Pharrell Williams, Kelis, Tina Turner, and numerous others, JUST WHAT IN THE FUCK IS "typical black music"?
Now, I'm sure the people who would say a thing like this don't mean to sound bigoted or racist against black people as a black person, but it's pure ignorance that they seem to embrace and revel in. You could just see them filling out job application and checking the box for "Black/African American" in the ethnicity section, then writing next to it, "not typically, i don't listen to rap or smoke weed and i'm not on welfare" or whatever stereotypically shit they think they're distancing themselves from. These are the same kinds of people who, if called NIGGER, would be more upset at a white man thinking they were one of those awful, awful "typical black people," rather then being offended at the slur itself and all the hate it stands for.
So who is the typical black person and why are you so quick to say they're not who you are? Who's a typical anybody anyway? What makes you so different/special anyway? Cuz you dress preppy, learned French, listen to "typically white music", go to Starbucks, and watch "typically white" TV shows? Well, like Kayne said, "even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe" so you can be all haughty bourgeois if you want to distance yourself from those awful,awful, unclean, misbehaved, ghetto, heathen "typical black people" whoever they may be,
but to somebody, you are just another nigger like the rest of us. I'm really sorry to be the one to pull your coat, but it's true and I don't care what your Uncle Ruckus and Aunt Sarah Jane tell you.
SO CUT ALL THIS BULLSHIT!
By the way, I've never heard a white person say, and I doubt one would in a million years, "Oh, but I'm not a typical white person..."
And I know black people aren't the only ones, plenty of other members from various ethic groups are toxic shamed, but we are who we are and though we may not fit exactly into where we're expected, we can't use that to separate us even further than we already are.
I want to put it all on Lynch, but he's been dead for almost 200 years. I guess he really knew what he was doing when he made that speech, cuz it ain't failed yet. Divide and Conquer usually never does.
