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The crazy rants remind me of a story I heard the other evening, a black "writer" who sued some Hollywood studios because they had "discriminated" against him ... whereas, really, according to many, his work was simply not good enough. Certainly, this is the case for many aspiring screenwriters, and a more balanced person would have listened to the criticisms and gone to work.
He therefore made is more difficult for other black people to gain credibility. Making us all look bad, as they say. Not that either of us would be a screenwriter. Perhaps the babies will aspire.
Also educated at Cornell, apparently.
Please don't think that one of anything can make all the others look bad. It's like when one Black person is chosen to speak for, OR give an opinion for all the others. No one person would be chosen for another group like that.
Please don't think that one of anything can make all the others look bad. It's like when one Black person is chosen to speak for, OR give an opinion for all the others. No one person would be chosen for another group like that.
I refuse to rant constantly about racism but I must admit I have observed that.
People tend to totalize, and when they do, they always pick those few bad people as exemplars. It is even quite easy to observe that here.
It really does matter what every person does. I try to teach my students this above all, that everything they do matters and will have implications.
Please don't think that one of anything can make all the others look bad. It's like when one Black person is chosen to speak for, OR give an opinion for all the others. No one person would be chosen for another group like that.
Agree completely. There is way too much diversity in the black population for anybody's opinion to be the end all be all for black people.
I have no idea of what you're talking about and I went to Wellesley. Everyone doesn't travel in the same circles or at the same time.
If you went to Welllsley, then no, you wouldn't know anything about Primal Scream. Jovan's is a different story. So is Joseph's, Breezeway, Opal Lounge, Sugar Shack, the Roxy, etc.
I refuse to rant constantly about racism but I must admit I have observed that.
People tend to totalize, and when they do, they always pick those few bad people as exemplars. It is even quite easy to observe that here.
It really does matter what every person does. I try to teach my students this above all, that everything they do matters and will have implications.
Then those people who totalize expose themselves for being pure morons, plain and simple.
Also, I could give a rats ass what whites might think of blacks. What a person thinks is his problem and his business. Not mine.
Except of course when you are looking for a job or a business opportunity.
Even then its that person's business and/or problem. I certainly can't change the person, can I? No, I don't believe I can.
So I don't worry about things I can't control. What will be, will be.
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