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Originally Posted by Meers
I think there is some validity to Kane's point.
In part, Kane has been criticized for simply participating in hip hop culture - which is all about swagger and flaunting material wealth. Walk into any hip hop club in LA or New York and that's how many, many young men will be behaving.
Is it appropriate to trash Evander for simply behaving like a young black man?
Is it appropriate to demand that he behave more "white"?
No. That's textbook racism.
Hip hop is alien to a lot of Canadians and so they criticize it as "######baggery", "arrogance" or what have you. But, that's simply cultural prejudice.
My advice? Don't be a playa-hatea. Let the homey maximum swag.
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So in your words behaving like a young black man is fulfilling the American media stereotype? I am mulatto and I can't tell you how many times white people have told me that I am not black because I don't act like the rappers they see on TV or have a street accent ( how the hell does this make sense for any Canadian born blacks to talk like this anyway unless they have watched to much TV?). I guess white people are conditioned via the media for every black person to act like they are from LA apparently.
Its really sad that many Canadian blacks feel like they have to conform to American societies view of our culture to be taken serious or else we are considered "white washed". Chris Rocks skitt is on the money. It seems that people are confusing Black people with Nigs. I think Evander Kane is a young impressionable mind and he is just falling into the same pitfall many young black people fall into.