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Originally Posted by Makarov
He didn't just "use it to describe a type of music though". He used it to describe "a type of person" (ie, black people who started hip hop and of course the individual black person who happened to be listening to hip hop at the time). I have no idea what his reason for doing so was. No one but Bill Peters knows his reasons for doing so. All any one else can do is draw inferences from what he said and the circumstances in which he said it. At this point, I think its a pretty reasonable inference that Bill Peters had some repulsive attitudes, whether consciously or unconsciously, regarding race at the time he made the statements.
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I think you are reading way too much into a quote.
I'm a rap guy, have been since the late 80s. When I started listening to gangsta rap my dad said something that started almost exactly the same as Peters' quote and it wasn't at all racist in nature.
My dad said something like "I'm tired of this n ####. All they say is n this, and n that. I don't want you listening to music that uses that word." At which point he threw my NWA tape out of the window of the car. With the way Peter's apparently tried to mock the lyrics, my gut says it was something along the same lines that intended, but executed it terribly and without tact.
Writing someone off as a racist because of a quote that can be interpreted in multiple ways, is a pretty negligent way to decide someone is a racist.
He said racially intensive things while at work, he should have been terminated for that. This whole thing is a PR nightmare for the Flames and thus he should be fired for that.
But none of this is enough to fairly label him anything.