No, we live in a world in which people like you see people who have been oppressed due to their race expressing pride in their heritage and culture as being separatist. Where people like you blithely disregard centuries of issues, because you decide that things can just be wiped clean with your blind assertion that you "don't see race." How easy it is that you "just see people" when so many of the people you look at are forced to start their race in life 100ft behind and in a hole, simply because of their race and the centuries of social construct designed specifically to hinder them and advance others. How easy it is to claim you see only a person's merit, which, naturally, you define by your own standards, which are informed by your own upbringing and -guess what!- race.
BullSH*T you don't see race. Your entire grievance against Minaj and the other songs/artists you disregard in this thread is based on their race, their expression of it, and your resentment of it. Your entire life is based on your race and its relation to others. Claiming you "don't see race" doesn't make you enlightened, just delusional and selfish. Being aware of the privileges you have, and the privileges others LACK, due to race is what would make you enlightened.
And I don't even like the damn song in question.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 9/17/14 at 05:23 PM