It's hard for anyone---white, black, or otherwise---to have a "whole self" that is free of racist ideas, bc racist ideas are everywhere.
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2) You fundamentally misunderstand how art works, imo. Art shows us possibilities, people we could be, helps us think about our lives.
How might I act in that situation? What is the normative way to act? What is the wisest way to act? How should I think about this situation?
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those are the questions that art answers. And, tragically, there were and are a lot of people in the circumstances described by gangsta rap.
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And those people too deserve to have their lives held up to the mirror of art, deserve to have cultural models...
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Well yeah. I had to learn how white people think to survive at white schools, white universities, white jobs with white bosses, etc.
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