daniellemertina:

I don’t listen to the Beastie Boys honestly. But it is too ridiculous that some white guy who made “hip-hop” died and everybody is coming out of the wood works acting like he was the only good thing about a genre of music made for black people by black people.

As if there aren’t black male rappers right now in the game that bring positivity to women. I guess they don’t exist. But a white man starts rapping and suddenly the white woman says “the music I loved loved me back” or whatever.

I think it’s because black men can’t ever be loving and respectful in the eyes of white supremacy. The whole point of white supremacy is to strip POC of their humanity. That does specifically to black men by absolving them of the possibility of being gentle and kind and loving… especially not to women.

White people love to front and act like black men are the worse (sexually perverse, violent, uncouth) and that black women “like” it I guess or enable it or don’t care because we’re “strong”.

Obviously, the black community deals with sexism and patriarchy. But if you listened to whites, the situation becomes totally misrepresented. And one way to uphold this misrepresentation is in how white feminists talk about rap music.

I can tell you right now, as somebody who loves trap music and ratchet music, that I listen to some sexist stuff. But you have to be kidding me if you’re gonna say folks who stay in white music land don’t.

If anything, T. Swift and all that stuff is the same. It’s internalized misogyny. Why is that upgraded over sexism? Both send “negative” messages to women, do they not?

And I feel like white women act brand new in the sense that pretty much all of the white male music I’ve heard engages in benevolent sexism. But that’s cool I guess. But twerking (which some women like to do & I wish I could do to be real) is oh so horrible.

It’s a double-standard. Pretty much a white man can say whatever he wants. They *may*cut the line at him saying he wants to murder a woman (like Eminem) but a black man has women dancing up in his video or says the word “bitch” or “hoe” is the worst thing ever.

And I don’t know why white women think this is any good for them. These double-standards are good for no one. They’re supporting a society where white men can do whatever they want (and that includes to white women) and maybe not even get much of a consequence. Of course, there is more likely to be justice if it’s a crime against a white woman. But even then, oftentimes white men are not held accountable for their actions.

Why? Because they’re pure and angelic just like white women claim to be. They want to over hype the problems in the black community while glossing over their own.

Good look.