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Originally posted by TKainZero
Is whoever trying to claim there is a soverign nation INSIDE america?
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
reply to post by undo
Yep, but never claimed to. Just saying that different people are interpreting her song in different ways. To immediately jump to race as the issue is more of a symptom of the critic's point of view than the artists.
Originally posted by neformore
Wow. The politics of race are running rampant in the US right now huh?
Its amazing what crawls out of the woodwork.
Sorry but I read this thread as racially motivated garbage. Shes black, he's black, so there must be a connection right? Hey "they're all the same", right?
Rubbish. Absolute and utter crap.
I havent seen ANYTHING to make me belive that Obama or Obama wife, or ANY of Obamas friends do not disagree with this.
And yet you posted it, deliberately, to make the connection. Why?
Says alot.
Originally posted by windwaker
Here is the Posts of Posts, that will put your mind to rest regarding this topic:
As a Black person, I will confirm for some of you that yes, there are A LOT of racist black people. But don't get upset, because if you only knew what the anger and bitterness has done to these people, you would already feel vidicated.
There are some Black people that are so angry, that they cannot see outside of their own race. They will deny anything proper or sensical if it seems like it comes from a culture not their own. This has limited them, and has prevented them from being human beings.
I have seen the damage first hand. I see it every day when I walk through the streets of my neighborhood. I see depressed people. I see people with no hope...And I am not saying that these people have been victimized by others. A lot of them have been...But that victimization is in no way comparable to the damage that they inflict on themselves by not choosing to love everyone in the world, and to learn from the world and respect it.
There are a lot of Black people who do not feel the way the singer in the video does. But sadly, these people are silent. They are silent because of fear of rejection and alienation. There are black people who fear their own people. They fear the social condemnation not to mention the actual physical fear. We have a lot of mistrust in our own culture.
So don't get to upset at all when you see videos like this. These types that you see in the YouTube video are slowly becoming extinct...Because no one wants to be around them.
I could never imagine myself marrying or making love to an angry woman, a woman who is racist...To me, a woman like that loses all of her woman-hood.
The fight is more complex than you think. In every culture, there is the good and the bad. The good will come together, and build The World Of Tomorrow.
The future belongs to the New Generations.
Originally posted by antar
I suppose I could come up with an American Indian Anthem, then Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Yugoslavian, Russian, Persian, Ukrainian, Checkoslavakian, Israele, , You name it... I can write it!
I never knew that the National Anthem was a color based song?
Originally posted by Zaimless
Dang eh? This opened up the world for a fight. I mean have any of you read all the posts? What a mess is happening here right now.
First of all racism is alive and living in North America, I've seen it, it's ugly. It will be around for some time, but it is being created by both the bigots and the supposed victims. As long as different races continue to see themselves as victims they are. Many of us are guilty of this. I don't know of a race yet that hasn't screamed "victim here, victim here". That includes the caucasians.
See I have heard Barack, Chris Rock and Oprah refer to the caucasians as "Whites", and in the same sentence refer to Blacks as "Afro Americans". Now what I think is if Blacks are "Afro Americans" then whites are "Caucasians". Am I wrong about this? As long as we identify ourselves by our color then we separate ourselves from each other. I don't care what color anyone is.
The fact is, a goof, idiot, jerk, pain in the butt, person comes in all colors, not any one color.
As long as anyone lives in the past, regardless of the situation, no one moves forward. That's why so many people don't get anywhere in life. The same is true of poverty, riches, abuse, drugs, alcohol.. etc.. Not just people of different colors. Aren't we getting wrapped up in a nightmare by believing we are our labels?
The fact is, the woman changed the program of her own volition. It was not in the program for that song to be sung. Doing so she created a situation that will probably require her to apologize to the whole country, because we are small minded. Yes the song is important, and she should have stuck to plans. She needs to apologize for singing a different song, who cares what song she sang.
And just for a laugh, maybe she didn't sing a different song because she was black, maybe it was a woman thing... lolololol
Originally posted by dalan.
Is everyone on here completely ignorant? A person living in America is perfectly entitled to sing their own version of the National Anthem, its called FREEDOM get used to it.
Originally posted by dalan.
What that woman did is a greater act of freedom as opposed to just singing what everyone wants you to sing.
Originally posted by dalan.
Making up your own anthem shows more respect for America
as opposed to making a big deal about some woman practicing her freedoms... by singing what pleases her.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
There are people on here suggesting that Africans are to BLAME for the slave trade!
You people make me sick.
Originally posted by windwaker
Plus, don't forget that Obama is half White.
Originally posted by NorthWolfe CND
Think so? Remember when OJ was declared innocent? What did they do?
So, due to their historical behavior, this has everything to do with race. She did not sing that song innocently just as the Black Panthers, The Black Power and other radical organizations do not do things innocently. Whether people like it or not we are in the middle of a race war in the USA.
If they win the White House you can multiply the reaction to OJ's trial by a thousand or more, every major city in the USA, at least the Inner City zones, will burn...
I would like to say that I do not include all black Americans in this turmoil, not even the majority.
They are a very small minority but, as we have seen in England with soccer, it only take a couple of individuals to tarnish a whole community.
Those radical individuals are increasingly sharpening their fangs and coming out of the closet. As the election grows nearer you can increasingly see their contempt for this great country: not singing the National Anthem, when that is what they are there for; refusing to stand for the National Anthem at sports events, and the list goes on and on...
So, this has everything to do with race. "White America" proved to have thrown their bigotry into the past, in electing a black Democratic Candidate.
I have been seeing that will not happen, the ones most affected will be, like always, the hard working black Americans that pay the price for a small number of individuals that have no place in an organized, peaceful, multicultural society.
As for me, I'll be ready and whiling to give them their just reward: a full metal jacked...They do like their bling...
Originally posted by NorthWolfe CND
Think so? Remember when OJ was declared innocent? What did they do?
So, due to their historical behavior, this has everything to do with race. She did not sing that song innocently just as the Black Panthers, The Black Power and other radical organizations do not do things innocently. Whether people like it or not we are in the middle of a race war in the USA.
If they win the White House you can multiply the reaction to OJ's trial by a thousand or more, every major city in the USA, at least the Inner City zones, will burn...
I would like to say that I do not include all black Americans in this turmoil, not even the majority.
They are a very small minority but, as we have seen in England with soccer, it only take a couple of individuals to tarnish a whole community.