[AnnaZ]

I remember that interview.

Who could forget it?

 

I think it's complete BS.

As do I. I also think it's as ignorant and offensive as possible. And the interviewer is as bad as the interviewee, if not worse.

 

She has to throw that bone to people otherwise, they'd be calling her another white girl trying to sing black just like Mariah Carey.

Think about that for a while.

[cyborg]

She has to throw that bone to people otherwise, they'd be calling her another white girl trying to sing black just like Mariah Carey.


Think about that for a while.

** I don't need to. I've experienced the other side of racism before. I wouldn't compromise myself to fit in. I've certainly paid a price for that stance in the past, but I'm in my early thirties and have seen my decisions bear fruit. I know exactly what's behind that sort of double speak and compromising though. It's all has to do with Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the most important need to belong.