Since ethnography and proportional representation are all that matters w/r/t pop culture, I felt the dearth of Negroes on the cover of
Rolling Stone's gala 1000th issue had to be decried, loudly and publicly. Here are all the Negroes on the cover: Snoop Dogg, Darth Vader (James Earl Jones does the voice, so he counts), Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, Jay-Z, Richard Pryor, Ray Charles, Eddie Murphy, Stevie Wonder, Muddy Waters, Michael Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Little Richard, Run-DMC (they probably should count as three, but they're all together so I just bet the editors count them as one in their evil, racist heads), Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Diana Ross, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Michael Jackson (yes, he counts), Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, 50 Cent and Bob Marley. That's either 28 or 30, depending on how you count Run-DMC, on a cover that found room for
six cartoon characters (Waldo, E.T., Zonker from
Doonesbury, Kenny from
South Park, Bart Simpson and Johnny Rotten). Rank bigotry, I say! Who's with me?
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)
No. As with all issues relating to skin color and pop culture, it is 1000 percent serious, and I resent the question.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)
As with all issues relating to skin color and pop culture, it is 1000 percent serious.
Then why did this sentence make me laugh?
Also, if you were serious, you probably wouldn't use the term 'Negro.' Think that word faded out a while ago.
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)
Black people invented pop/rock, blues, soul, jazz, gospel...
Your stick up the ass insecurity gives white people a bad name. Shut the fuck up and continue sucking thy thumb.
― the Simple, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)
ilx always thinks satire is pointless & unfunny when its about ilx; conversely, ilx thinks it's hee-larious when it satirizes something kee-razy like george w. bush or coldplay.
― komedy chomedy, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)
Oh I see Phil, one Rolling Stone cover makes you feel assured that "Negro" (your choice of words) music gets the proper attention it deserves in the media. And let me get this straight--you wrote a book about Miles Davis and you edit a world music publication. Have you informed any of the Negros you talked to while working on those efforts of your views regarding how much ink they should get in the media. And I won't even get into how you think dancehall and reggaeton is inferior music to your beloved metal...
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)