― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
Some may look at me and think, "Ok, she's obviously got some street cred to her. She could blend in with a hip-hop and R&B loving crowd and wouldn't look totally out of place at a rap show." But you know what? I would feel utterly and completely lost in those sorts of places. I have no inner street cred to speak of. The homeys in the ghetto wouldn't exactly be down with me listening to Scritti Politti. I'm so out of this particular circle that I don't even know if that last sentence makes me sound like an even "whiter" person. I am essentially the Steve Martin character in the movie Bringing Down the House.
Point being, it could very well be possible to consider oneself unhip and totally not down with "it" (whatever "it" is) no matter what one's outward appearances may be. So if you have porcelain white skin and fine facial features, don't think that automatically makes you unhip or not "clued in" to the ways of the street, because I know for damn sure my OWN olive skin and big lips and Roman nose could not even BEGIN to give me an instant ticket to the World of the Ethnic Cool.
― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
I get told I´m a fake Puertorican all the time, just ´cuz I´m white.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
I think we are at at the ass-end of identity politcs in this country.
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
It is six years later, we have a black president in the USA (since this thread is US-oriented). Do you think we have made significant progress in that time WRT stereotypes about music consumers?
― u s steel, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/fleet-foxes-lp.jpg
― tenderhoos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this "too white" thing just about bad marketing and careless reporting?
― u s steel, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh good
― no one is ever ready for the STAKK ATTAKK (jjjusten), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
bacon
― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you asking whether black people have started going to Roots shows?
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
The truth about this is ineffable, yet you effers keep effing.
― M.V., Monday, 30 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i was one of those people in high school & some of college who described things, pejoratively, as 'white' (i had a radio show called 'renegades of funk' LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)... anyway my self-loathing cycle arrived and i did this complete 180 a few years ago and now privilege and prize music that i once would have disparagingly called 'white' (i.e. dadrock, balearic, & in particular the intersection btw the two) (im not sure that my reason for doing this reversal is, um, 'racial' in nature; i mean, i wasnt checking out hall & oates instead of mos def because i had gone stormfront--though i think there was a certain kind of racial discomfort i began to feel abt my position w/r/t rap music & maybe my shift toward the dadrockearic axis was a desire to return to a less fraught place)
anyway i now listen to i guess "white boy" music (incl. even some indie bands!!!!!! who are of course the 'whitest' of the 'white') but id never think of calling it 'white' approvingly. not really shocking, obviously, since its sort of troubling to be going around using 'white' as a compliment. i guess i just wanted to share.
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 518,000 for "too white".
― velko, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,020,000 for "bottle opener".
― no one is ever ready for the STAKK ATTAKK (jjjusten), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess i only use "white" to describe music or a performance that is going for a style rooted in black or latin culture, but missing the mark (no matter the ethnicity of the performers).
― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxpost hall & oates are pretty funky white boys tho
― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm white btwhttp://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/15_sasha_lgl.jpg
― velko, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/search?q=white+bottle+opener&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
― BADGES DON'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO WALTZ OFF WITH A BABY (HI DERE), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
According to the Hall and Oates biography, Hall upon learning that "I Can't Go For That" had gone to Number One on the R and B chart, wrote in his diary,"I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now?"
― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
white people are the worst
― ice cr?m, Monday, 30 March 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i would love to read the rest of that diary
― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"i guess i only use "white" to describe music or a performance that is going for a style rooted in black or latin culture, but missing the mark (no matter the ethnicity of the performers).
― meat of beef (Jordan)"
how long was this thread before someone finally stepped in with the easy common sense answer to the question?
― pipecock, Monday, 30 March 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
white people post like this
― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Monday, 30 March 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ussteel.com/corp/images/logo_top.jpg
― eman, Monday, 30 March 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm interesting question nabisco... *thoughtfully strokes neckbeard*
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah it's almost like white people have no pride
― stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i say more power to them
― s1ocki, Monday, 30 March 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
one might say we need a new stormfront of self-worth
― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i think white people just need to "master" race as it were
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
white people need a final solution to this question.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
too far
― Point being, I hate all of you. (Lamp), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
what's it like to be white?
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe that question needs a new thread
*thoughtfully strokes neckbeard*
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, March 30, 2009 6:27 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
watch out for them pop tart crumbs
― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
btw u are very white
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
hush, cracker
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
ritz, cracker
― stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
my coke-rap name is gram cracka
― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
bernard snowy's not a bad one either.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link