"Lavieri, Vince [185776]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >By the way, one of the really neat things about 8 Mile is >how whites and blacks interact. In the rap world, it is a >whole differenmt way than in society as a whole. As far as >race relations goes, rappers have it all over the rest of >us.
This brings to mind a cartoon I once saw in the New Yorker: a white teenager, replete with hip-hop fashion, saunters through a room where his father is reading the newspaper; the father looks up and says, "Shouldn't you be out somewhere appropriating black culture?" -Fred