I dont think its wrong when country music is so white because they developed it, contributed much to it which is undeniable and made it mainstream. I know the influence of country music is of african american origin but there are a variety of ethnicities and race that helped shaped it to what is it today.

@lucky9Lives

2 ай бұрын

Not helped They stole & banned black artists calling the music race records instead of what it was country music.

I’m black and I’m literally obsessed with country music; my favorite.

@VVVVV99611

Жыл бұрын

You have terrible taste.

@Taylordessalines

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you white inside. It’s a racist genre. Enjoy!

@othaallenjr5705

2 ай бұрын

subscribe!! otha allen jr. i got some new music coming soon

@certifiedzos5639

2 ай бұрын

I'm Black and I love country music

@henry247

2 ай бұрын

Country is heavily influenced by blues which is black music...

Why is rap music so predominantly black? Because of the culture behind it. This is true of any genre of home music (music based on home or lifestyle). Beyonce may have written a country song, but she is hardly country, no more than some white country bumpkin writing a rap song makes them a rap artist. Know what's real country? A country born, bluesy black man, and a guitar. That there is some country for life.

@Tes-qe1jc

4 жыл бұрын

ZombieDeathRace unlike rap, country is nothing but folk + blues. Blues evolved into gospel, soul, jazz, R&B, rock n roll, funk, Disco, House music ( techno) and later EDM, Hip hop and every sub genres of all these modern music. But it all started with ragtime and scot Joblin ( Ragtime superstar- black composer btw) started modern music as we know it today. So to say that country music has nothing to do with black music is utterly stupid. Slaves used to play drums and banjos before a five or six string guitar was even a thing. I never denied the fact that country music has Scottish influence in it. But you have to understand that slaves used to be forced to sing to their slave masters. White American has nothing to do with music. It was all about being “superior “ than the other races while barbarically tormenting slaves and cleansing native Americans. Some of the country singers were even sooo obsessed with visiting black prisoners to record the songs and publish them in their own names. Do your research and come back please.

@Freekniggers

4 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly we are trying to build peaceful communities that means no rap.

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

james - STFU.

@DomoniqueMusiclover

4 жыл бұрын

This is true for the U.S., Australia, the UK, Canada and Ireland. Now in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it's the same, BUT white hip hop artists/rappers being the majority. Then, you have ones with Turkish, Moroccan, French and other origins. So, yes it deals with the home country...

@eboniestunnified9715

4 жыл бұрын

Cuz y'all stole everything from us all we have is hip hop. Y'all stealing that too

I don't know huffcompost, why is a music genre traditionally enjoyed by anglos and descended from music brought to the Appalachians by Irish and Scottish immigrants that evolved and remained the dominant music in the European American agricultural culture that made up the majority of the country until the last few decades mostly performed and enjoyed by white people?

@Tes-qe1jc

4 жыл бұрын

Dead Bear American folk + blues = country music 🎶

@vr6535

4 жыл бұрын

Buna I wrote my senior thesis on the origins of country music. Country was folk and brought of by slaves on the ships; and your right the blues melted with the mountain folk (hillbillies) who played banjos in south. It eventually evolved into Opry style and influenced Tejano music in Texas/Mexico. It’s all combines :)

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

3 жыл бұрын

Veronique Ramirez Most Americans musical styles are combinations of european and African dances and instrumentation.

@damuni1

3 жыл бұрын

@@vr6535 So based on your research for your senior thesis, did Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh folk music had minor influence in the development of country music compared to African folk music? Or how would you allot the percentages of influence?

@veridicusmaximus6010

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tes-qe1jc Don't forget Old Time and Western

You literally say in the video that country was born out of both african and celtic music forms but then in the description you say it was only black 🤣

@jhondelv8891

3 жыл бұрын

lol lol Because it is true. White people can have it tho and Rock. You can steal the art but not the art maker..... Black people will continue to create different arts.

@CabMech

3 жыл бұрын

@@jhondelv8891 it's not true, anymore than fried chicken is a purely black thing. Scottish dish + African spices = something new and uniquely American just like country music

@kakarot5792

3 жыл бұрын

@@CabMech you have a point

@West-Telecom

3 жыл бұрын

@@jhondelv8891 Which arts ???

@strikermi9

3 ай бұрын

@@jhondelv8891 Trying act like black folks didn't got influenced or stolen be stuff but it ok when black folks do it

Yeah this is a good thing that black artists are finally getting recognition in the country genre.

What I find really interesting is the filmmaker Isaac Himmelman is an Israeli born new yorker whose Twitter is filled with Chanukah celebrations, meetings with various rabbis, and discussions of the holocaust. Funny that...

I love “XXX’s & OOO’s”! As a black woman who was looked at crazy for liking country, I feel like it all makes sense now.

huffpo has to label everything.

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up.

@raeosunxine

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's an effort to create shock value for likes.

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

Shannon Henson - ZZzz

@TheJAITKEN1

4 жыл бұрын

@@hueykhalidX great argument 👌

Darius Rucker’s is a black man song wagon wheel is one of the most watch country song on KZread.

That’s why country music is good

@Tes-qe1jc

4 жыл бұрын

Elisha Hassell hey did you realize that country is folk + blues music? Blues gave it a soul.

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

Elisha Hassell - STFU.

@user-us7py1cy2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@hueykhalidX you’re just mad

@hueykhalidX

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-us7py1cy2k - STFU

Another black female country singer was Ruby Falls who charted three songs on Billboard country charts. Google Ruby Falls country singer.

"Country music was born out of the black American experience" .... Huffpo, better quickly go edit Wikipedia.

@Ad-Ac

5 ай бұрын

wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything academically speaking. You need to dig deeper than wikipedia, literally anyone can edit and write on that site.

It’s highly irritating that there’s so many so called racial lines in music. I’m proud of the heritage and definite spice that the black community has given us in music. What I get from this is collaboration. If celts and Africans can come together to create what we call country music, and so many artists from Ray Charles, Jimmie Rodgers, Merle haggard, and Charley Pride have added jazz, blues, and R&B to the mixture, making it palatable to a world wide audience, why can’t people see country music for what it is? It shouldn’t be a whites only club. It should be like American is, a rich melting pot of instrumentation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Country, Rock, and jazz are truly American music, because of what we all add to the pot. American is a culture, let’s stop segregating it. We’re all in it together

@dmg.2443

3 ай бұрын

White people started this by infiltrating Black spaces and claiming to be superior ie. Eminem.

@darlene_1998

2 ай бұрын

Great comment, so true

Black people already know country music came from us my grandfather loves him some lightnin hopkins and if u listen to him u can't get no country than that it just the record company call it the blues, country music to me it just the white man blues and like everything in America especially back then blacks start something whites redo it call it something else rock and roll and country music have there foundation in the blues

Took me the right moment and right song to fall for Country music.

Country music isn't just an European genre, it's African (Banjo) & square dancing & European (fiddle, Peddle steel guitar, regular (acoustic & electric guitars), and many other instruments. We all belong in country music, and we all bring our own experiences into country music.

@holyspiritsgirl9349

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Square dancing was a rip-off of African American dances. The call-out method is square dancing came straight from the enslaved people; you all appropriated it and made square dancing boring, and without rhythm; the guitar is an African instrument: the African Krar Harp, The Kora, the Guitarra, which is a North African guitar. The Guitarra was brought to europe when the moors conquered parts of it. was br

@holyspiritsgirl9349

2 жыл бұрын

country music is black music. y'all just appropriated it and stole it like white ppl tend to do.

@gastonlanteri1147

Жыл бұрын

"Wah wuz kangs an sheit"

@gastonlanteri1147

Жыл бұрын

The banjo, central american ukelele, and it's south american cousin the charango, are all different versions of the european mandole and citole, the instrument often used by bards in medieval times. Blacks didn't invented any european instrument the same way native americans didn't invent the charango and the ukelele, and the tuning of the strings is done over armonic tonic scales which are, basically, european concepts (asian music such as chinese and middle eastern music is atonic). "Rythm" is not "african", in the same sense hitting a drum is not an african only thing. Drums have been around in pretty much every culture around the world since the dawn of humanity because well, any human with two brain cells can hit a thing with a stick and create "rythm". For rythm to be armonic, there needs to be a melody first. And yes, there were lots of african american musicians... Who were thought music by european and their descendants. If black could be able to create music by themselves, they would have done it in Africa since they have been living there for the past 1 million years. Yet, they haven't invented other musical instruments than drums. They have no music.

@carlwalker9635

Жыл бұрын

Black Americans invented the fiddle technique, just stop it. You pale people as a culture do not even have the rhythm to claim the invention of any damn rhythmic music, just stop the Egotistical bullsh*t. Even the European influence was from eu-melanted Moor's who lived in Europe whose history has been suppressed. The "Celtic" /Scottish/Irish influence was from dark skinned people of these regions, not pale skinned Europeans which is another historical lie.

I'm ready right now to do that "Git up dance"! You're all welcome to join me! I believe Wagon Wheel was written by Bob Dylan it was a folk song.

Country Music enjoys well documented African American roots coupled with undeniable African American influence.

Just like rock music was the invented black man named Chuck Berry

@bobbyschannel349

3 ай бұрын

he didn't invent it.

Why is salsa music so Latino and no afrolatino? Is the same answer

@1986BNick

Ай бұрын

Some of it sounds more like Polka music than it does country music. Just saying.

“Watches the video, looks at the comment section, looks at the like to dislike ratio” yep, every single variable seems to be in place. People cannot handle the truth, even when it’s slapping them in the face.

@RodolfoAmbriz

3 жыл бұрын

Thought just the same.

@ElNegringoKreyolito

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much

When you read a statement about race, always change the word white to black and ask yourself if this is really a legitimate question. Or could it be just emotion-rousing clickbait?

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

ZZZzz

@billymavreas3800

3 жыл бұрын

Try this, always change Mikey Mike to Whitey White and ask yourself if his is a legitimate question. Or could it be just emotion rousing defensiveness?

@ChelleyFresh01

3 ай бұрын

Next time watch the video. Judging by your response, ironically, you responded by your aroused emotions.

"Why is hip hop so black?" You realize your double standards when you change the elements in a situation.

I've know this all my life growing up in a house full of southerners/musicians. Why is it such an unfathomable idea that black culture could be destroyed or stolen and rebranded? That literally happened all throughout black history and still happens to this day. Difference is we're much more vocal about it nowadays and willing to fight for the credit we're due. Modern country is what it is, but its roots are black. Period. Country music belongs to us too. I don't understand what's wrong with that.

@juliemann3934

3 жыл бұрын

very true

@holyspiritsgirl9349

2 жыл бұрын

very true.

As long as the music is good I honestly don’t give a shit who’s making it

@Ad-Ac

5 ай бұрын

This video is not about thw music or identity. It is more about origins. It is good not to be ignorant and know some history.

Genre is genre anyone can use it guys..

Preach Jimmie!!

What we should remember in conversations about race is that everyone is tribalist. Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Whites.

@Taylordessalines

Жыл бұрын

Nah… that minimizes what whites have done.

Reported for bigotry

@michelletackett9489

2 ай бұрын

Lol cry harder racist.

Why is throat singing so native American? RACISM

A great black country singer is Tony Jackson. The first black female singer on Grand Ole Opry was Linda Martell.

"The past is better than the present" so country music is conservative

@Ad-Ac

5 ай бұрын

Country music is country music. It is whatever people make it to be, no need to put labels on it

Country music is about hardship and hope, it should be for everybody. And black people have lot of hardship and hope for the future, I would love to see more Black Country artists. White or black, country is all 100% American folk.

@teemonnorris8003

2 жыл бұрын

It has a lot of black people now tbh.

Mama rock meee!

Who looks at America as a “white space”? It’s the most diverse country in the world.

Indeed, country music isn't a european genre. Still love country music. Reason I love country music is it really relates to our culture in a way as well. I always been a country boy as a kid and never thought about it.

@AveTrainOnDaTrack

4 жыл бұрын

Country music was invented by irish immigrants not blacks

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

The Flying Ace - BS. American music = Black creation. In fact, music itself, instruments and even language are all Black creations.

@shrek19yearsago78

4 жыл бұрын

hueykhalidX naw instruments were mostly made by whites like the guitar was made in europe also i don’t get the language thing you talking about english or ghetto rap English

@shrek19yearsago78

4 жыл бұрын

hueykhalidX you said music is a black creation but I rarely hear black music before the 19th century where it was mostly dominated by Europeans

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

@@shrek19yearsago78 BS. WE were the first on this planet. The first to utter a word. The first to make music. The first to create civilization.

Wow incredible

Good ol race baiting

@hueykhalidX

4 жыл бұрын

STFU.

@jacktimothy7401

4 жыл бұрын

Tnx to white people & hate & history

Yall are disrespecting Charlie Pride

Isn't cultural marxism fun!

Country/Rockabilly is, to me the best marriage of American cultural heritage. It includes all of the cultural influences. It brings us all together.

A PIANO Has. BLACK & WHITE KEYS and the WORK AND PLAY AS ONE SOUND.

Does it really matter who created it first. God created music for us all to enjoy.

Why not

Beyoncé just might bridge the gap

So true 1:03...

Same reason rap is mostly black

Beyonce do not represent the black experience in country music whatsoever

@donaldewert2332

3 ай бұрын

Linda Martell!!

So it's mixed...Black and white...

Sorry but I only made it to 5m20s. Earlier someone had said that three chord music originated in Black music and I smelled bullshite. When the narrator country is musically and thematically rooted in the Black experience I knew the vid was bollocks. I'm white. I'm English. I gave up drumming at 17 and bought a guitar because I heard Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt for the first time and wanted to make music like they did. I learned that their music was rooted in their African heritage but expressed in what was, essentially, a white, European form - three chords, 12 bars, 1,4,5 chords. Taking that white, European form and inventing something essentially African-American was maybe the best thing that happened musically, in the 20th century. But to say that country music is rooted in the black experience because of Charlie Pride and Beyonce (????) is plain stupid. I can only imagine the vid maker's head is so far up their politically correct arse they ain't even hearing what they are talking about. There. I spent more time typing about this than watching it and it was still more fun. THUMB DOWN.

@Tes-qe1jc

4 жыл бұрын

Trevor Howard unofficial black country singers were singing using banjo before guitar was even a thing in the 17th-18th century.

@trevorhoward2254

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tes-qe1jc That's interesting, thank you and I would love to have heard such music. But whatever they were singing, it wasn't Country music.

@veridicusmaximus6010

3 жыл бұрын

@@trevorhoward2254 Exactly!

@holyspiritsgirl9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@trevorhoward2254 yea it was. it's wasn't the whitewashed bullshit country you here today. we sang real county music.

@carlwalker9635

Жыл бұрын

@@trevorhoward2254 I guess black Americans in the 17 hundred's were playing hip hop on the Banjo, does that even remotely sound logical??? They were playing what later became labeled by the industry as bluegrass and country music. The Carter Family were literally taught Country music by a Black American by the name of Leslie Riddle. He took A.P. Carter to black segregated hillbilly, and rural communities to "Song Catch" i.e. Steal black American country songs which A.P. wrote down the lyrics and copywriter. Mr. Riddle, also, taught his daughter how to play the country scratch technique on the guitar which she is given the credit as having created. You've been deceived if you think a rhythmic music like country music and bluegrass does not have its roots, and development in black American music styles. Most white people do not even have any rhythm, how in the world could your people have created a rhythmical music, just use common sense, and drop the Ego, and narcissistic analysis, and you will see the originators were dark skinned people.

Because less black people or other poc's have played it

@user-us7py1cy2k

3 жыл бұрын

@XXCoreXX no it doesn’t

Wytt Massagale dose country music

❤❤❤

Oh for Pete sake have you ever heard of Charlie pride!!!

Darius Rucker though

If its afro-celtic is it not inclusive to white and black people? With two cultural influences. Are thou not country if thou were raised country like....... same for hip hop european culture and african culture....??

@juliemann3934

3 жыл бұрын

not it's not. its black music first and for most.

Dude country music isn't tied to race i know many black folks who love country music 😂

@DarkNJuju

2 жыл бұрын

But where are the black artist?

@brothersruther5218

2 жыл бұрын

@@DarkNJuju doing rap

Google Joel Sweeny

They don't want blacks in County music considering that country's very rhythm comes from Ragtime, Blues and Jazz and Black Gospel; the musics found in African-American culture and they use the Banjo an African instrument. Plue Blues and Jazz grew out of Rural America, that is why they too are "Country".

It's considered so white because that is who the majority musicians are - Duh!

Waiting for your expose on "Why is Rap so black?"

@Ad-Ac

5 ай бұрын

how in the heck is Eminem black?

Beyonce not even from the country

Why does it even matter if your black and you wanna sing country it better sound good if not that’s fine too why is race brought up in everything

Wrong there’s even Black Country singers

Because I’m white!!!!!!

They literally claiming all the music we made😂

@Dre54004

3 жыл бұрын

Stfu Whites made everything y’all own in America be happy and stop complaining

@thesoulbrother8636

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dre54004 The truth hurts you ppl.😂

@user-us7py1cy2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dre54004 stay mad. Black people created country try again

@user-us7py1cy2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dre54004 your so triggered

@JW-gl4yp

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-us7py1cy2k but they didn't though 😂

Wytt Massagale

If you listen to early recordings of blues and country there's very little difference one from the other except for the race of the musicians. So that's probably your answer right there. Segregation. Black and white musicians borrowed from one another all the time, listening to each other over the radio, but were not allowed to play together or collaborate.

@theumarfam4162

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, the "borrowing" was more of a One Way High Way street running from segregated Black communities straight into white. Stealing of songs from black musicians was a huge cottage industry back then. Country, Jazz, Blues, Pop, hip-hop have mainly black origins, I know it hurts to hear that, but its the Truth.

@_Peremalfait

3 жыл бұрын

@@theumarfam4162 It doesn't hurt at all. Why would it? There was back and forth, however. If a blues musician heard a guitar lick he liked on the country radio he used it, changed it, made it his own and vice versa.

@West-Telecom

3 жыл бұрын

@@theumarfam4162 In your dreams.Don't make excusises because you failiers.Admit you didn't sing good and charismatic like whites and could't save this genres, whites did.Then stop to say bullshit.

@campbellsoup93

Жыл бұрын

​@@theumarfam4162 Well that's a dumb statement. You cite Jazz and Blues and yeah blackwere first played by black people. But who invented the instruments they used TO play it? White people. Who invented the turntables and records that early pioneers of hip-hop used to craft their sound? White people. White people invented the instruments. Black people said "hey that sounds cool, I wanna try that" and they tried it and created new music based around those instruments and white people said "hey that sounds cool, I wanna try that" and they did and evolved the music further. As for country music that mainly came from Celtic folk music but also incorporated parts of African music such as the banjo. So yeah, safe to say it was a two way street.

@QueenofZamunda2023

10 ай бұрын

Are you saying white people invented music instruments? You may as well say they invented oxygen too. Jesus!

You can steal the art but not the art maker..... Black people will continue to create different arts.

@West-Telecom

3 жыл бұрын

So interesting WHEN ???

I'm black and I say that all modern country music sucks anyway. The last great country song that was written was When I think about Cheatin, by Gretchen Wilson. They don't write country songs the way they used to, and by that I mean, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Reba McEntire, or even George Strait. This crap that they're pumping out today claiming it's country, they can just put it right back in the horse they got it from.

@CabMech

4 жыл бұрын

That's complete horseshit, you just aren't into the genre. Radio country sucks just like radio rap does, artists like Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and Chris Stapleton are putting out amazing, genre advancing stuff right now.

@theylied1776

4 жыл бұрын

@@CabMech Nope, you're full of shit. Between the ages of 16 and 19 I worked at two different recording studios, one on Franklin Road the other on Nolensville Road. My primary job was to drag drunk-ass session musicians out of bars on Printer's Alley so they could finish fucking recording. So don't tell me I don't know about the genre, dumbass. You Don't Know jackshit about the genre. I've forgotten more about country music that you will ever know. And if you noticed all the people I listed are singer-songwriters they're not simple singers dumbass.

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

3 жыл бұрын

Tennessee Whiskey

@theylied1776

3 жыл бұрын

@XXCoreXX Nope, I have seen some of the most talented singer/songwriters in and around Nashville when I was a production assistant. And none of them could make it in country music because they wouldn't play the music industry game.

Unjustified

Easy answer. Country music was born from the South Country rural America small towns where as we all know is the World of White Racist America

Idc if its the music is made by white people or black. If the music is good i will listen. Why is it even a problem bruh

interesting video. thank you. personally I believe music has no color.

Why is rap so black?

Why tf is Beyoncé country ? Country is not what she said, country is what comes from the heart, this whole video is just wrong

It's white people white people have more chill and don't want to have strokes when dancing

Lil nas x🤠

This woman refuses to tell the truth, BLACK PEOPLE CREATED COUNTRY MUSIC AND THAT'S THE TRUTH.....

Black people and old timers in general HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN that COUNTRY MUSIC WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTION! Once again, white americans who seek to white-wash american history WILL ALWAYS DENY THIS TRUTH, but we KNOW OUR HISTORY and country WAS NEVER WHITE to begin with, but was APPROPRIATED like everything else in America! Was not Elvis' "Hound Dog" ORIGINALLY Recorded by Big Mama Thornton A BLACK WOMAN back in 1952? Elvis was singing the COVER SONG of a black woman the ENTIRE TIME, but they LET YOU THINK it was originally his... Black and Indigenous People of America KNOW OUR HISTORY! Do you know yours???

black people were the first to play country music, it’s time the tell the world the truth

"You can't talk about music without talking about race." What nonsense. Why is it always that "educated" scholars at university have to conflate race and identity with the very things that unite us all the most? There is nothing to gain from it. The only thing it allows is for is the justification to force a group of people to hate themselves or their ancestors and be sorry for something they have no control over. Disliked.

@DaRegime

Жыл бұрын

Literally the entire society we live in was founded and groomed on the basis of race and identity. Everything done/most of the things we have today was influenced by black people in some shape or form. This is NOT to say White folk aren't talented and don't contribute because they are/absolutely do contribute, and I would never discredit them. But thats literally the point, white people in these mediums have erased the black identity, or rather DNA, and claimed it as solely their own. That's the issue. That's always been the issue, and it should not be forgotten/not discussed so easily. Have nothing but love for you, but these types of videos need to be out there and people have to stop being so angry when faced with the truth.

@NoBody-pf2nv

Жыл бұрын

@@DaRegime How to hate your life and your past speedrun. I will not let race live rentfree in my head about every aspect of media that I like. I will not let race be a factor in my decision making. I will enjoy the things that unite us without constantly having to bring race to the table. You should too.

@DaRegime

Жыл бұрын

@No Body I love my life, friend! But I don't have the luxury of not thinking about it. It's all around me. It's a thirteen year old me hearing about a boy my age getting sent to prison and tried as a man. Or a boy half my age being out on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Or, all the culture we helped establish being taken away or history revising it to say we had no parts. It's all there, and I refuse to navigate this world willfully ignorant when I can help the next brother or sister who is ready and willing to learn and unlearn. Seems you're not there yet, but I still love you. And trust me, I move without worry all the time! I just know when and where to bring it up and this was one of those moments. If you have it in you, I encourage you to listen to the podcast "seeing white" just to grow a perspective. Not to hate who you are, because you shouldn't, but to know the actual roots of why our society is the way it is. Peace be with you today!

@NoBody-pf2nv

Жыл бұрын

@@DaRegime It's exactly this kind of attitude and narrative that I will never agree with. Using phrases like "Unlearn", "You're not there yet" and "Seeing white" simply disgust me, they always will. I stand vehemently against the deconstruction of the most advanced societies on this planet, just because some bad shit happened to a group of people who are a lot better now. I (european) want to protect my culture and see the deconstruction and "un / relearning" bullshit that the american left is pushing as a dangerous precedent for my children to still grow up with the same love for their culture that I was luckily able to grow up with. I will die on this hill, whatever it takes. As such I will never come around to your side and you will never come around to mine. What we are left with is two options: Be enemies or ignore one another, not giving a shit about the other's perspective. I choose the latter, but with the state of things currently, I see a future of becoming the former. Simple as.

@DaRegime

Жыл бұрын

@No Body I'd love to clear things up and also pose a few questions to you. The first and most important question is to look at our very short conversation and ask why have you gotten so incensed and disgusted when, for the most part, I've been really kind with my rhetoric. Even when calling you out. 2. You aren't there yet, and although you live in a very different culture (I'm assuming you are based in Europe) your very post shows me that you willfully will not think critically or openly on this topic. 3. "Seeing White" is the name of a podcast by a white man. It's not an inflammatory charge on people, but an examination of where and how society (particularly American society) got its ideas on race and thus racism. 4. I could care less about the American left. Though I'm left leaning, I'm first a human being who just wants to educate myself and those around me. Your initial comment struck me, and I felt inclined to respond. Not to be combative, but because it was relevant to what I've been learning and very topical to the video discussion. 5. No one wants you to destroy your culture? I love European culture and celebrate it unconditionally. But it should be examined, just as any other culture should be. We are doomed to repeat mistakes if we don't learn from them. Unfortunately, modern European culture (established in the late middle ages) can be attributed to the destructive nature of racism and its harmful effects on society today. All culture is beautiful, but these blemishes exist, and they should be eradicated. Only to do so is to learn so our future generations (your beautiful children) will be better than we ever were. 6. There is a third option. I never saw you as an enemy. I still don't. But you see how you immediately got upset with me? That's what I want to change. It starts with hard conversations, empathy, and openness. We can agree to disagree and still be allies/friends. Society, once again an examination of culture and how we've grown, has dictated that we must be enemies or we must ignore each other in disagreement. We actually don't have to. And I'm more than willing to learn and listen, only if you are open to doing the same. 7. To your original point, music does unite us all, more than anything. I've played and performed with all different types of people. But its history (especially contemporary), just like any other things has roots of oppression and hatred. You can't control what your ancestors did, but you can contribute to how our society learns and operates from those horrible decisions.