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To: Publius804; Borges
Afrobeat, as a genre, was intentionally internationalist - it was meant to be a synthesis of Western and African music and to transcend tribal and national borders as a rebuke to violent chauvinism in Africa.

The music was effectively invented as a style by Fela Kuti, who took traditional Nigerian highlife music and mixed it with UK rock (via his friend Ginger Baker) and US funk (via his admiration for Sly Stone, who fronted an ethnically mixed band).

Hampshire College - whose students are almost 80% white and less than 5% black - are arrogantly standing in judgment over an Afrobeat band for being too diverse?

It used to be that political correctness was driven by overintellectualizing situations and trying to apply complicated communist theory to real life.

Today's politically correct vanguard is based on pure emotion rather than thought.

They cannot even explain why they do what they do, or recognize the inherent contradiction of their actions. They simply aren't smart enough.

6 posted on 10/31/2013 2:42:20 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Self segregation is their goal.


9 posted on 10/31/2013 3:10:49 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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