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Originally Posted by laylo
I wasn't arguing White double standards, only that the Black community has a limited ability to manipulate an industry for which they are not the main consumers, and the protestors of Imus are a smaller number still.
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Great point- many, many Black people have commented on hip-hop's dark, violent, woman-hating elements, and many more have supported the protests with their time, voices and money, but it hasn't changed anything. We are not the main consumers of hip-hop culture. Our approval or the lack thereof will have no appreciable impact on the record labels bottom lines- as a matter of fact, the more loudly the voices complaining about the music (Dolores Tucker comes immediately to mind) the more popular it becomes with the public at large (similar to what happened in rock music when the explicit stickers went on the records- those artists were suddenly perceived as heroes by the public- just watch VH1).
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