Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[jbor]

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>From: jporter <jp4321 at IDT.NET>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)
>Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2000, 2:40 PM
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>  Perhaps you misunderstood both the face and the value?

Perhaps, perhaps not. My response wouldn't have changed one iota.

> I appreciate your good intentions in challenging the
> evils of racism, but you are mistaking my challenging of your posturing for
> racism.

Not at all. The word "posturing" is an insult.

> Even if you're black that would be an indefensible ploy.

Again with the arbitrary discrimination.

> it was not racial stereotyping or prejudice, except in your
> mind, that I was about.

No? Back to where you started:

>> snip
>>
>>>Enslaved,
>>> the black man was objectified, dehumanised. Music and dance became a medium
>>> of escape, rebellion, subversion. White boys (Elvis, the Stones, Slothrop in
>>> the Roseland Ballroom) never really understood this, but they liked the
>>> beat.
>>
>> Jeez. That's too bad. It must have been REALLY cool before it became a
>> medium for "escape, rebellion, subversion"...Maybe there were even special
>> songs and dances to get psyched up on, and then go and murder the majority
>> of the neighboring tribe, rape the women, etc. But since they were black and
>> technologically backward, too, it was different, I guess.
>>
>> Anyway. You get the point. There are no innocent races, tribes, groups, etc.
>> The white boys no more or less than the black boys.