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Re: A Controversial Subject

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-11-07 02:10

Here's a question:

I wonder where we would get to if we imagine a world in which white people had been captured and sold in their millions as slaves in Africa. If we image that European and North American culture had suffered terribly, taking the feet from the whole white race and causing the development of those countries' structures to fall behind. We could then imagine that the medical needs of white people had never been fully explored in the thriving and succesful continent of Africa because they were a minority race. As a consequence white people would struggle to get good medical care, and trust in doctors would be low. This would cause further trouble for many white families, who already had a tough run in life.

Imagine that we, ourselves, were minority white people in a successful African continent, struggling to get promoted in their musical community. Perhaps we are deparately wishing that we could find a voice and an audience for our under-appreciated European music, instead of trying to just fit into African music. I wonder if we could think about how that would feel?

Do you think we would appreciate, in our poverty, being given cash handouts to try and make ourselves fit into African culture better? Further - do you think we would appreciate being given blind auditions so that people wouldn't judge us for being secretly white, but could hear our talent and imagine that we are black, at least until the curtain goes back?

To be honest, I'm not sure we would.

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