Your point is still valid, who's the evil oppressor in this case?
GEORGE CLOONEY!
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On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:15, John Bush wrote:
> > While money may be the easiest problem to
> > shake your fist at, the marketing forces
> > that determine the economics are guided by
> > history - a history of bigotry and conservativism
> > that refuses to acredit African-Amercians with
> > anything outside of popular stereotypes.
>
> Don't forget hillbillies! Obviously race made a huge difference in blacks
> not getting airplay, but class and regional identification pushed country
> music out of the mainstream for a long time too.
>
> Does this prove that (music industry) money sees no color? Not
necessarily,
> there were plenty of bigots in the music business (as in society), but as
an
> industry-wide force it may have been a more pragmatic form of bigotry...
>
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