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Originally posted by acedawg00-02
Sis,
A message board is one of the most challenging mediums to express yourself through b/c it's hard to gauge a person's tone or overall feeling on an issue. I'm just trying to spark conversation...and you know that we can hang out and sip martinis any day  .
Now, your points about Blacks voting 90% Democratic, and advertising being about the "bottom dollar" are well taken. But I do not agree with the idea of an entity taking advantage of someone's warped sense of self-perception. You said that, "this is a capitalist society...and if they can capitalize on these things...so be it." From that, it seemed as if your position was one of acceptance - I'm not sure. Personally, be it capitalist or not....it's improper and inexusable. And you're right...we need to stop feeding into the BS. Nothing will change until we stop perpetuating these stereptypes...
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Well I think we "let" people take advantage of us. Why complain about what someone else is doing to make $$? I think you hit it on the head with our "warped sense of perception." That makes me more upset than how corporate America makes its money. African Americans need to stop looking at what everyone else is doing to exploit us...and make the necessary changes in our community to stop allowing the exploitation. I wonder where corporate marketing departments would come up with the ideas to put men in their commercials with gold teeth, hydraulics on their cars etc... could it be to take a look at our urban youth? I put the fault squarely on the blame of our parenting (or lack thereof) and our community's acceptance of any and everything secular.
To TonyBO6
One question...tell me what the democratic party has done for us lately...besides try to woo us with programs disguised to benefit us that only really hurt us??
You look at it saying that the Republican party hasn't done enough to bring us to their party....my take on it is that the Democratic party hasn't done enough to keep us!
PS - I'm gonna take u up on those Martini's ace dawg!
