[mani]

very interesting convo

good question too

i had a similar convo but mine was a lil different i was talkin about rappers and how ghetto you had to be to be ghetto? i mean does it mean you have to get shot 5 times and thats ghetto? (50 cent) get put into a coma from your gunshots (the game) or simply claim to be ghetto cause you visited compton once even though u had a upper/middle class upbringing ( dr dre)

i think america has this infatuation with itself. it wants to say black so that it can say look how far we've moved on from the civil liberties movement. look how a black man is now the best in a white mans game. look how a black man is running for president where previously black people were slaves etc.

everyone tries to play the ethnic card so that they can sorta get the support of that ethnic group. J-lo has always played on her hispanic roots and thus having a very strong fan base there. though there's been cases where the ethnic card wasnt played - nasser hussain never really went on about how he was half indian. one case of over emphasising his ethnic mix was prince nas the boxer and how he wud have the yemen flag aswell as the uk flag. in hte latter of his career he even went on with the islamic angle too.