Interview Doctrine: Rap Materialism and Racial Humility

well I'd imagine he means everyone in everyday life.
just this specific case addressed white people in a genre built by blacks and latinos.

I think it's just a certain measure of decorum required when you interact with someone who's racially or culturally different than you are instead of behaving as if you're more knowledgeable of their experiences than they.

Like chastising a person for issues involving their race and not yours shows a lack of racial humility.
that's what I think.

I agree with Dan, if we were truly in post-racial America, then Obama's ethnicity wouldn't have been such a big deal during the election. I don't like Asher Roth because he generalizes hip hop and all of its listeners. According to him, there are the white kids who can't relate and then there's everyone else. That assumes that all non-white listeners come from the same background as rappers and that all rap is the same. And you know what they same about people who assume.

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"As any Genre becomes successfull it becomes debased"

so true ...

This is a good point. He really gets it.

TRUTH!

Dan equates success = debase. Hip-Hop was debase b4 it made money and capitalism had nothing to do with it. The progenitors of Hip-Hop came from failed education, welfare, drugs and broken families. Dan doesnt represent were Hip-Hop is today nor is he anything like the pioneers of Hip-Hop. He presumes minorities are pure and in no way responsible for their own behavior; thats how much he thinks of minorities. There is no such thing as racial humility the term itself underscores competition.

It's not just that white people need racial humility, but rather that everyone should have some understanding of the privilege their bodies and class give them. I believe what he's calling "racial humility" in the context of this discussion is an understanding and appreciation of the ways white people have benefited a WHOLE bunch over 400 years.

White people because we are the ones who have benefited the most from this artificial racial hierarchy.

To extend the house metaphor, Asher just came in, broke a bunch of stuff, then is demanding to know why you broke your own shit.

What allows him to (sort of) get away with it is the fact he's white, and is branding himself very very explicitly as right because of it. He likes college, doesn't wear bling, and "makes rap"suburban kids can relate too".

Taking the tools and themes that POC have built, and using it to disrespect everything they say. White privilege at it's best. Rock is back.

true.