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28 Jan, 2007

When Don’t You Want To Be White?

Posted by: mts In: general| music

Welcome to your OMGWTF moment of the day.

I’m trying to make 2007 all about the love, and crap like this totally ruins it. Look, I feel bad slagging Pressler. But maybe she needs to rethink the journalism thing and look into comedy writing. Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK? I am less offended by articles in the Daily Pennsylvanian. I can only hope that ghosts are real, and W.E.B. DuBois haunts her down for the rest of her existence until she (re-)reads The Souls of Black Folk.

There’s no ignoring that indie rockers are a melanin-deprived bunch, and it is good to read about the re-integration of rock culture, especially when the ascendency of indie rock to popular culture has wrought complete homogenization. It’s a real “up with people” moment, marred by insipid, wide-eyed cultural generalizations not that far off from “News At 10: Black People Defy Cultural Stereotypes”. If you managed to read that without feeling some vomit-inducing combination of rage and embarrassment, well, I guess you’re better than me.

2 Responses to "When Don’t You Want To Be White?"

1 | tobiasac

January 28th, 2007 at 3:20 am

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…kind of a drop in the bucket overall, but how the hell are the Eternals a hardcore band?

Still trying to wrap my head around the rest of it.

2 | mts

January 28th, 2007 at 10:34 am

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time to cue up the cocker spaniels’ “only black guy at the indie rock show”, which is a similar response.

i had a crazy dream tangentially related to this article last night — the broad street line was going along a route that went through philadelphia’s predominantly black neighborhoods. even though when i stepped on the train, it was the G.

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