Wildboy said:

Let me tell you, if there's some sort of Secret "White City Counsel" meetings where white people meet up to oppress other races and divvy up wealth, they sure as shit never invited me.

[Edited 7/25/10 7:48am]

Yea its called the US government

Sweething said:

I find the original post and its premise offensive as race-baiting and I have asked the moderator to lock this thread.

The precept or command the poster gives is: " we are going to acknowledge that all of the above is true" which includes his first statement via thread title "acknowledging white supremacy". To acknowledge is to recognize as valid.

[Edited 7/25/10 2:52am]

To be fair, I don't think that's what he meant. I don't think he meant "we should acknowledge the truth of white supremacy" meaning that whites are superior. I think he meant we should acknowledge that our nation in general and the music business in particular, for the sake of this discussion, has a well documented history of racism, and that historically whites have oppressed other races, notably for this discussion, blacks.

Seriously, let's all chill out here and get along. I don't think there are a lot of racist white people running around who listening to Prince and posting on this site. I just don't see that.

He might not have written clearly, but I think we should give each other the benefit of the doubt on some of this stuff.

Sweething said:

I find the original post and its premise offensive as race-baiting and I have asked the moderator to lock this thread.

The precept or command the poster gives is: " we are going to acknowledge that all of the above is true" which includes his first statement via thread title "acknowledging white supremacy". To acknowledge is to recognize as valid.

smh.