you know, i was sorta with you RIGHT until that point over there. That’s the same White Superiority bullshit people keep trying to spring on us at any given chance.

From Rock-n’-Roll to Hip-Hop, the dominant culture pillages a Black artform, commercializes it, and then a breed of cretins like you develop airs about how much more erudite and sophisticated you are, and thus you are the only ones with a right to act as tastemakers or critics in a genre you’re just coming to know.

—i think there’s a lot of respect and this kind of goofing is a self-mockery that says, “we will NEVER be as cool as the descendents of kidnapped africans and we know it!” —

let’s look at that statement for a second. Isn’t it interesting that you, like most of White America, look to Black America for “coolness,” while telling us we aren’t sophisticated to understand what apparently makes us so cool? It’s that age-old “Blacks can dance up a storm and dribble a ball, but don’t think of putting them in a classroom” rhetoric.

See, people like you really make me sick. Instead of talking about how “aggressive” these hip-hop clubs are, why don’t you just decode it and say,
“like many other white kids raised by the media, I too am afraid of black men. But their artforms are OMG, so kewl! So I’ll just imitate without understanding, and I’ll do it among my own kind.”

You think I’m wrong? Think about this. How pitiful do you have to be to actually refer to *yourself* as a “hipster?”

I don’t know what happened to my post (or my comments, after the bit i quoted). Was it deemed offensive/inflammatory or something? I can’t imagine it would.

By the way, great job on the site.

You know, man… I was with you up until THAT point. That just smacks of the age-old White Superiority, where people move into other cultures and believe their “refinement” and all-around white superiority qualifies you to be the only worthy critic/tastemaker in said culture.

Just like how every Action/Adventure flick has the white hero traveling to faraway lands, where he absorbs the culture, becomes better at its forms (e.g., martial arts) than the natives, and (of course) ends up with the girl. Such bullshit, my friend. Such bullshit.

I’m still undecided about the concept of the party and the true motive behind them, but it makes me uneasy. The fact they are endorsed by a black lesbian and black/puerto rican seems ironic, to say the least. I’m not sure that makes the whole thing OK. That’s like saying it’s OK for music videos to exploit women because the women are participating in them willingly. People don’t always use their heads.