http://2xconsciousness.blogspot.com/2008/04/white-privilege-and-stuffwhitepeoplelik.html

Plus this blog post which sums up many anti-racist folks disdain fore Stuff White People LIke.

http://www.theroot.com/id/45371

For a good site on white privilege and supremacy in America check out Stuff White People Do by my friend Macon D.

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/

Plus, as an urban proletariat and a union leader I take offense to the fact that you are somehow assuming I’m talking down to the poor. But here is a line I do like from a rapper who has a similar urban proletariat and pro-people of color background.

Check out the introvert
In the corner with the rip in her skirt
Stomach pains so she grippin’ her shirt
Ain’t never had dinner
So she know she ain’t gettin’ dessert
Don’t try to tell me it’s her mission to hurt
I got faith in the people and they power to fight
We gon make the struggle blossom
Like a flower to light
I know that we could take power tonight
Make ‘em cower from might
And get emergency clearance from the tower for flight
I ain’t sittin in your pews less you helpin’ me resist and refuse
Show me a list of your views
If you really love me
Help me tear this muthafucka up
Consider this my tithe for the offer cup

That’s by Boots Riley from The Coup, a radical Black Marxist rap group from Oakland. Now that’s good, not the homophobic and sexist vile from Technique.

Also, you did not address any of my concerns with Technique, you just spit out some bull shit assuming that I was trying to talk down to the poor by criticizing a fellow revolutionary. Why don’t you actually address the concerns I was trying to point out in Techniques lyrics. He seriously has a lot of growing to do. And the coffee shop revolutionary line was just reactionary bullshit because those whom are criticizing Technizue are his own folks, radical Chicanos and Chicanas and fellow Marxists whom organize their own folks against deportations, immigration raids, and imperialistic wars.

So before criticizing me as some bourgeois white dude who doesn’t work for a living and doesn’t know something about class struggle please get your facts straight and actually address the argument. Techniques lyrics speak for themselves and those are quite damning. Plus, are you assuming that somehow Techniques sexism is synomous with working people of color?

Those reactionary lines are poetry. It’s meant to make you a little uncomfortable. Art should.

Plus it sounds better than:

uh uh check check
working together
as brothers, arm in arm,
will we raise agricultural production
by 20 percent
in the next five years
destroy the neo-imperialist tyranny
of the Bretton Woods institutions
yeah yeah
yo

which is what I assume you would prefer the poor to say.

“How dare you niggaz criticize the way that I spit/you coffee shop revolutionary son of a bitch”

It looks like people have criticized him on this and he has shown his true self by reacting in a completely reactionary and childlike way by calling those folks “coffee shop revolutionaries.” This despite the fact that many of those who criticize him are the true revolutionaries and real Marxists who view women’s liberation and gay liberation as being equal to that of the class struggle. And its not just the bourgeoisie that is criticizing him but the proletariat as well.

I agree with engaging in debate, that is vital, and I agree that many folks have their own dialetical struggle within in, especially hip-hop, but saying hip-hop has its struggles with how it treats women and LGBTQI folks is just a cop out and an excuse that isn’t valid because there are plenty of rappers out there who challenge that dialectic and are succesful at it.

As for shunning someone off completely, since Immortal Technique has lines such as this:

“I’ll rape your mom/I still murder rappers on the street for sport ”

I have no problem with shunning this dumb ass off completely.

“The Coup, Kiwi, Bambu, Geologica from Blue Scholars, The Attik, and DO D.A.T.”
All of these are GREAT musicians, and I’d add S.O.N. as well as Red October, who are fantastic revolutionary socialist hiphop singers too..