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Why do white people always seem to feel like they need to have an interest in what black people are listening to, and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?

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jessie how many people do you know that only listen to one genre?
-- j blount (jamesbloun...), May 21st, 2005 12:31 AM. (later) (link)

Zero. I guess some people do, but being young (especially for this board), I think my generation has seen more genre mashups and splitups etc. than you old folks, so even kids who listen only to pop radio are exposed to multiple genres.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Am I really PC for thinking that Bad Brains is way better than teh damned?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

When white people starting copping blues riffs it became "rock n roll" . . .

um, no.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Why do white people always seem to feel like they need to have an interest in what black people are listening to, and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?

Um, they don't.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

When white people starting copping blues riffs it became "rock n roll"

Hahaha, and when black people started copping blues riffs it became "jazz," right?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Why do white people always seem to feel like they need to have an interest in what black people are listening to, and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?
Um, they don't.

-- mrjosh (jrothma...), May 21st, 2005 9:57 AM. (later) (link)

I'll point out my post was made in response to the influx of threads concerned with what black people are listening to.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 21 May 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate generalising posts like this that use 'black people' as a singular rather than plural phrase/grouping (is that correct english?). anyway, yes, lots of BLACK PEOPLE (TM) seem to like coldplay and their ilk.

― blahbariantheoriginal, Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Take off and nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
Am I really PC for thinking that Bad Brains is way better than teh damned?

No, just correct.

― Mark Mays (Gandalf Mantooth), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. White people in What do Minorities Listen To shockah.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Because black people are cooler than white people.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

It's because their skin reflects less heat.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

how many threads are there on ilx that have been started by retards who so feel threatened by ethan that they just go insane?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3820

Dr. David Thorpe's latest blog entry, has a few really funny ones about race and music..I thought it was fitting for such an inane thread..

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Slocki, way way too many.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I admit I'm not sure how this particular thread came to life due to Ethan. (I'm not ruling it out, mind you.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

who is ethan?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

On another note, is there a correlation between black Americans and improvisational skills?

http://a.abc.com/primetime/whoselineisitanyway/images/gallery/whos_careystiles.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha but wayne brady CARRIED that show!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

what's up with Thorpe's blog? None of those links work. That racist.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do white people always seem to feel like they need to have an interest in what black people are listening to?

Maybe they/we don't want to miss something good?

and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?

Uh, what?

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do white people, whose favourite music is mostly by black acts, have to be so obsessed with the fact that a lot of listeners do indeed not listen to a lot of music by black acts?

I mean, black people usually don't care, it is mainly white people, into black music, who have this fixation.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL at geir calling other people fixated.

lock thread pls

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, it's not about gear, lock for stupidity.

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link


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