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Sin's Speach

posted 14 years ago by Vashramana
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when he talks about wanting appreciation from white people for adopting black people's mannerisms and culture. give me a break!! was everyone supposed to listen to what he is saying and have one of those eureka moments? "oh wow i never thought about that before, but he is sooooo right"

ok so he thinks that white people stole black people's culture and adapted them to there own culture? ok well i got news for you mr. sin. the cars you drive, the clothes you wear, the guns you shoot, the jewelry you wear, the school you take your daughter to, hell even the language your speak are adopted from cultures other than yours!! mostly from the white people you despise. i know that is not pc and any movie that responded with something like that would be destroyed by the naacp. it's a very ignorant and hypocritical statement to make.

i always feel the same way whenever i hear the argument about how white people stole the blues and turned it into rock & roll. well that may be true and it probably is but lets not forget about who invented the guitar, the microphone, the amplifier, drum kits, etc...

[–] Mandingo609 10 years ago

The ?Angry White Man? strikes again. Do you work for Fox News???

[–] Rhymoid 10 years ago

I think it happened like this:

The writers felt the need to shoehorn Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction) into this atrocious movie. What better hallmark to include than some angry but eloquent speech? The only black character left who'd fit the part was Sin LaSalle. Now what? I dunno. Something about wealth and Afro-American culture, question marks, profit.

Nevertheless, you have a very skewed view on history.

Keep in mind that a large majority of the ancestors of Afro-Americans were brought to what's now the USA as slaves. They didn't "adopt" the clothes, jewelry, school system or the language, but it was forced upon them, just like their family names were replaced by that of their "owner". Cars and guns are technological feats, which have much less to do with culture than you suggest.

Meanwhile, the strong influence of Afro-American culture on 'white' culture is structurally downplayed; music is a very good example. It doesn't matter a single bit that they didn't invent the instruments you mention (not those, but definitely some others), they used them in ways never before imagined by people from 'white' culture.

And why are you acting as if your 'white culture' contributed anything? 'White' American culture is little more than imitation, a bunch of hollow traditions, cut loose from any form of historical meaning. It's only a vague shadow of whatever people remembered from the places they fled by coming to the USA.

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