While riding the A train (BK baby!), some idiot who was trying to run some LAME game at at me (while i was listening to my ipod...) heard what I was listening to and had the audacity to tell me he didnt want to talk to me anymore cause I like that "white people music"...Anyone else ever got accused of worshipping the white devil by listening to white people music???
Happens to me all the time. I live in Alabama and I get it from black and white. Just doing my own thing. To hell with everyone who stereotypes.
Permalink Reply by Tam on September 6, 2009 at 11:47am
I guess its old news, im just shocked because I thought rock, electronic, punk, hip hop, etc has merged into a horrible mess (ie : kanye) , and people where more open minded. I guess not. Since when did music get its own race?
I Don't see people have such a problem with that. If a white kid goes bumping along to hip hop nobody bats an eye anymore but god forbid a black person listens to rock or metal. BLASPHEMY!!
Hell, as Ice T (I think) once said, Black people invented rock & roll.
Don't get it anywhere near as much now as back in the '70s & '80s... Black folks in general are not nearly as xenophobic as they were back then. Or maybe people are just less likely to be obnoxious/confrontational with a semi-respectable looking goth matron than with a skinny little 20-something punkette. And when I'm wearing my work clothes (African) and cranking Metallica they are prolly too confused to even come up with any stupid comments.
We still got a ways to go, but overall there is more acceptance now... I mean, my students (5th graders) all adore Hannah Montana for chrissake, and my nieces & nephews all listen to every vapid white pop singer whose name I can't even remember. Except for the emo niece (only interesting one out of the whole bunch of intimidating little overachievers LOL).
The majority of so-called "house musik" or dance musik played in da hood in da mid 80z waz European. Fuckin' dummiez!
Permalink Reply by Tam on November 16, 2009 at 10:11pm
Very off topic sorta, but today I had a similar "incident" happen on the train with black isrealites. They told me I love the white race more than more own and I should be raped. I The reason why: I was wearing blue nail polish...??? Im confused, are white people the only ones who can wear nail polish? The really f'''ed up part was they rode the train with me for 25 very long minutes.
Funkadelic iz azz Metal az anyone out there; they even had da satanic-thing goin' on with stuff from The Process Church in their liner notez on their early albumz. Uz Blackz gotta short memory.
hahaha...the A Train is usually known for its share of retards....i mean i would know...i have been takin it my whole life....but then again i would say its kinda an accurate mini demographic of society *shrugs*...fuck it
I think the counterpoint to this is the metal fans that used to come up to me and tell me:
"It's great that you guys are getting into metal and not that rap ish" or all the others that thought I was just at the show to move contraband.
I've been called a disgrace for listening to "white people music", yet it's totally okay for white people to listen to "black people music"
The only disgrace is ignorance.