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Originally Posted by kronic
To ME, it's about the culture and creating divide. A young black kid hears this stuff, without ever being exposed to white kids, and starts to believe it. Hopefully he's raised well enough to never assault or kill someone, you're right, few do, but it would be naive to think that they don't carry around that hatred or at BEST, trepidation.
You're not born with racism, it's taught to you. That music is teaching it and furthering the divide. The very divide the black community preaches needs to be closed. That's my problem. Which is NO different than white parents teaching their kids shitty morals when it comes to race. Contrary to what the black community will tell you, the divide that exists today is the fault of BOTH races.
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I'm sure the music does influence some people's beliefs, but I think it is a very small number people and it as a pretty small impact on them. I feel that family, friends and surroundings play a much bigger role in it.
I grew up in a very small, redneck town. We only had a few radio stations you could pick up and there was no internet so outside influence was pretty small, yet there were tons of people I knew growing up who were racist.
I, honestly, never spoke to a black person until I was a Sophomore in high school. That year we got our first black kid in school. He was very nice, very cool and a good guy to hang out with. Half the students in school wouldn't talk to him or had some kind of racist thoughts towards him. He started dating a white girl (there were only white girls in the school) and tons of people flipped out. They even went off on her. These are all people who had never spoken to him. That racism was learned at home.
If anything I think the music might help reinforce it, but when I look at the video of these kids and I compare it to Dr. Dre lyrics I see two different things.
I do agree fully that the divide is on both sides. I have said for years that you should never say something or call someone something that you wouldn't want others to call you. It is ridiculous to call your friend a Ni**er and think it is fine then turn around and get upset when the wrong person calls you it.