Dan Charnas on IllDoctrine.com
Jay interviewed me for his second piece on Asher Roth. Check it here:
You can watch his first piece here.
You can watch his first piece here.
Labels: hip-hop, journalism, personal, race
posted by Dan Charnas at 2:36 PM
8 Comments:
Brilliant, just BRILLIANT!!!
I agree with much of what you said, and I liked the way you explained how the whole "bling-bling" issue is not something to blame on black people, it's actually something that was established by capitalim. This interview really opened my eyes for some issues. Thanks for the interview.
It's funny. I just randomly started rereading Bomb The Suburbs and I was thinking just this morning how the stuff Upski was writing back then about white people's place in HIphop still seems incendiary. It still seems that people haven't figured out their entitlement issues and their racial humility issues.
Someone should buy Asher Roth a copy of the book.
woooow! i'm honored to know you dude, honestly. i mean, you get it and it's beyond learned. somehow you know and you understand, even where we don't, i think.
i'm glad you had the stones to acknowledge that racial humility on the part of white folk is an essential component to overthrowing white supremacy completely. It's easier to vote a Black man into the Presidency than to accept the fact that decades of illegitimate privilege have produced the arrogant sense of racial entitlement that many white people express on a daily basis.
It took nearly 500 years for white supremacy to form, florish and fossilize. It's gonna take more than 40 years of protest and policy to get rid of it...
Racial humility from DC? 'Fraid not. Let's get this straight. White man #1 criticizing white man #2 in an interview with white man #3 does not equate to racial humility. Racial humility is knowing when to shut up.
Did notice the wedding ring, though. Congrats.
NahmSayen:
Well, of course, Jay cut out the part where I said that many people wouldn't think I have any "racial humility," so it's all relative.
Luckily I'm OK with folks having their opinions about me, no matter what their background is. Not sure what yours is, since you remain anonymous. But, you know, you might want to do a little research about other people before you condescend, homie. Who, pray tell, is white man #3? If you found out that he wasn't white, would that make his opinion more legitimate?
Maybe you need to take your own advice about "knowing when..."
DC
Will you return to blogging? I hope so. Great interview, man!
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