Harman, Harman, Harman, wow. Just keep digging yourself into a bigger hole. nobody said we should all look up to jordan as a role model. I am beginning to actually feel like you believe what you wrote, and you actually think it wasnta baseless statement. I think anyone who has any little knowledge of the culprits of societal desconstruction would realize that Micheal Jordan, a man who can shoot a basketball better than others, has a smaller responsibility to the world, then someone who uses language and words burnt into the skins of african males as a sense of edginess or coolness. Now lets get one thing straight, your a rap fan, and when you argue something that people idetify with so much, its gonna be hard to convince them otherwise.
While it hurts every bone in my body to discuss this, for the sake of development for you I will. Like I said, if you accussed Jordan of being a black male, not contributing or helping in the cause of his people, and being complacent, fine. Just I look at you, and others as being contributors to people who skew the meaning of a culture and adapt it to what they feel is right, it is understandable. What everyone fails to realize is HOW, his fame makes him MORE responsible, or demands him to be some sort of social activist. Paris Hilton, Every hollywood actor, I can go on forever and ever, who are GROWN MEN AND WOMEN, who are not involved in social causes... Shall we point the finger at them as well? It is such a ridicolous argument, and I know you feel that way as well. You said I have an ego, well our ego is clearly representative in your writing and the fact that you can actually say that bullshit and that crap to someone and think we are stupid enough to believe. Very similar to rap music, when they sell bullshit and expect people are uneducated and not informed to sift through that crap.
Celebrities and people in the spotlight have an obligation to be respectful and not act the fool. But to claim that you have NO respect for tiger woods and Jordan, because they are not social activists is offensive to my intellect. It is offensive to everyone who has bother to understand who are the culprits of the mess that is our social order. It is offensive to those who have spent their life understanding who is to blame for the mockery of their people. To point the finger at Jordan and Tiger Woods of all people, makes me sick. As athletes, as people that children may look up to, they have an obligation not to act a fool, and feel like they can do what they want, when they want. That is completely different than demanding that Jordan does something about the city he played basketball in and the drug use of those people. Thats fine that he is influential, nobody cares. Because you have this power, doesnt mean you are obliged to use it for social gains. It would be nice, but to hold the fame against them, to say that because you can shoot a basketball, you should have saved the youth from drug use, insults everything i have learned about.
I am speaking in such a low tone, because it hit me that this transfer of responsibility is such a problem. When someone can look at Micheal Jordan and look at him and say, look he was famous and did nothing to fix a drug problem, how much onus do they put on themselves? You think that fame is correlated to one's responsibility to social rights and social issues? Wow. What world are you living in? Its the fact that people point the fingers at the Jordans and Woods of the world, but so rightfully claim that each and every racial group should be segregated when it comes to racism, is what breeds the culture we have today. I can walk around using racist terms and paint them on a billboard, and I can constitute them as art, but in reality, it doesnt fly. Walk up to Barack Obama, call him your n word, and ask him not to be offended, and tell him let your own people dictate the usage of that word. If a white person, or a black erson knew the connotation of 12 baj gaye, or alloo, or towel head, or whatever they would call me, I would hope that they would stand up against the use of that word. Man what have we come to when all the educational and the institutions taht strive for the ecellence and the advancement for the black community say dont use the words that was burnt into the flesh of slaves as something positive, and are looked down upon it.
You will never convince to say that just because I am not part of the people that are being put down, that one should not stand up against racist terms. It is coming from the rap community as well, a community who has golrified drugs, sex, and even violence against other miniorities including women (not all that different from bhangra). If the NAACP, a group who had fought for civil rights and people gave their life, their blood and their everything for gaining those rights, tells you that the n word is THE MEANS OF OPPRESSION that the mainstream media can keep black people down with, how as a miniority can you say this is not our issue? Rap music is mainstream oppression. It golrifies, cars, guns, jewellery and other things that whites and governmental operation gain off of.
I cant educate someone who overextended, and said what you said. Its too large of a battle. When you have informed people, there are two types. Those who are willing to learn and comment on what they know, and those who have learned little but comment on everything. I would emplore you Harman to decide which avenue you would like to travel to. Your response will be something I said in the past, or your own take on how much of a joke it is that I ask people to sacrifice something for punjab, or how my philosophy is so easily mocked, but it means nothing to, especially after having this conversation with you. Next time you want to say that you said nothing to insult me and I have an ego, dont follow it up with insults, it kind of belittles your whole point.
For someone who recently became a gursikh, and recently tied a pugh on their head, just because you a sikh, doesnt make you my ideological bretheren. One thing you will realize is that there are people who tie pughs on their head but committ the most ultimate of sins. A brother of mine is someone who I know follows sikhi correctly, which I have no idea you do or not.
