Anon, I’m adding your ask here so no one will be confused about the context of your absurdly racist belief, and as more evidence of my original point.
First, let me briefly point out that the film/tv industry has more than its fair share of sexual offenders, both on and behind the screen. Indeed, any industry will have sex offenders among their ranks because of how society at large functions. I doubt that in your life you never watched, listened to, played, or interacted in any other way with a piece of media that didn’t have someone that did something that you find offensive.
But that’s a discussion for another time with someone else. You say that you listen to rap, and that you enjoy it. But then you posit that all straight Black male rappers are all automatically rapists, and that’s why you don’t support them. Allow me to explain that not only is this a DANGEROUS notion to take root in your mind, it’s also not original. Black men being considered rapists is a threat that’s been aimed at us for centuries to justify the violence that befalls us from the hands of racism. You unilaterally say that all “mainstream” rappers are rapists, an incredibly racist and offensively untrue statement by any measure of common sense and decency.
You could’ve said you don’t want to support Sean “Diddy” Combs and anyone that’s worked closely with him, and left it at that; but instead you decided to say that because of him; ALL straight Black male rappers are rapists. You suggest this about rappers that were around before him, that are gaining fame after his arrest, and rappers that have never even met him. You say you listen to Black women and Black queer folks and think this somehow absolves of the cartoonishly racist statement you make of straight Black men. And I think you know this is a racist thing to believe because you’re on anonymous, and like all forms of bigotry (your racism in this case) is a form of intellectual dishonesty and cowardice.
Just because you supposedly listen to Black female rappers and Black queers rappers doesn’t mean you’re not espousing the same tired, myopic, rhetoric that’s been force fed into your head from hundreds of years of white supremacy propaganda. Indeed, if you’re going to come into my inbox and talk out your neck about Black men, to a Black man, the least you can do is try to come up with something new. But you can’t, because all antiBlack ideas were thought up before you were born, spread by more people than you’ll ever know, and expressed in more ways than you perceive to be possible. You only think you’re being brave and saying what needs to be said, but you’re just being a puppet for good ol’ fashion racism.
I could list the many rappers that have been nothing but positive beacons for our community, but I don’t see the point in talking to someone so diametrically opposed to my and my brethren’s existence.
I want you to look inward and consider how you can sincerely think that believing all Black male rappers are rapists is a thing a decent person would believe. I have the first answer for your journey though: You. Are. Racist. And you have a lot of dismantling to do, but I promise you’ll be better for it. Get to work and stay out the conversation of racism until you have something worthy to add.
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