Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)
Terrance
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Wed Jul 26 18:16:38 CDT 2000
jbor wrote:
>
> Now, a few days later Terrance made a disclaimer that his post on "the Old
> Negro" was his "take" (whatever that might mean) on an article or book
> somewhere, and so he might well have been assuming a persona in making these
> implicitly racist remarks (and, they are racist). However, you were
> applauding the remarks at face value, or so I understood it. This is why I
> was both flabbergasted and disappointed. So, I guess my "purpose" might be
> to challenge racial prejudice and stereotyping when it rears its ugly head.
Why don't you look the book up? I provided the name and
author. Were the poems racist too? It wasn't a disclaimer or
a persona. Perhaps your claims, yes, your claims are based
on ignorance, imagine that. Well, I guess I'm to blame, the
jabs were rather direct, not indirect, like in your face.
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