Effect of Race

[Gromgor]

Originally posted by Kailen

Fourthly, This goes out to Gromgor. I didn't to comment initially, because I felt your perception and view on rap music and black folks is truly absurd.

Do you know that 65- 75% of hip hop music sales are contributed to middle class whites?

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762156.html

65% of 80% of the population. Blacks make up 12.8%.

Numbers mean a lot with context.

There's 7 times as many whites as blacks, but we're not buying 7 times as many cd's. We're only buying roughly 3 times as many.

Who's buying the rest?

You say that I'm uninformed. You say I have no diversity. You say that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I see it every night. I work at a Wal-Mart on the night shift. I'm required by my job to interact with a VERY diverse, very middle-class population. Both lower and upper and everywhere in between. I see it with my own eyes.

You're so stuck on the "Gromgor is wrong" act (which seems to infiltrate every single reply you make to anything I post) that you're the very thing you believe me to be. You assume my opinion (usually to a degree that is completely, without question NOT what I believe). I could post "I believe A." and you would reply "No you believe B, C and D and you're a chump for thinking that!"

I believe you even did it in this thread.

All of that aside, here's something to think about. Consider it a rhetorical question. Just ponder it.

"If Gromgor (Me) is so fucking wrong. Why is he? Could it possibly at all be because the music industry (and various other media outlets) have intentionally mislead people, and if Gromgor could be mislead, what about all those young blacks who are seeing the same images. Hearing the same songs. Reading the same magazines. Why is Gromgor able to be wrong, but they can't also be wrong in the exact same way to such an extent that it becomes noticeable to everybody willing to actually admit it?"