I just can't get over the amount of Political Correctness that goes on today. You can't say certain things anymore. If it offends one person then it all of a sudden becomes offensive to the masses!! Whats that all about!?!

Went through a stage over here where people were saying "Snowperson" instead of "Snowman"!!!

As for "Dancing like a white girl" who cares! It is meant as a quip!! People say white people don't have rhythm, jewish people have big noses, black women have big behinds. Everyone knows that isn't always the case. Its just a joke!

Oh well you can't please all the people all the time.

Live a little unremarkable, laugh a little too!! It will all make sense in the end!!

This is gonna be a long thread.I'm gonna start making the popcorn now.Anybody want butter?

DavidEye said:

Got any kettle corn?

DavidEye said:

Got any kettle corn?

CalhounSq said:

Sure do!

The implication is that white girls can't dance, and that's offensive.

DavidEye said:

SWEET! I'll bring a box of French Vanilla Crunch 'N Munch too

unremarkable said:

No, it's offensive when someone who cant dance fucks up the electric slide..get your ass back to holdin up the wall

And now we're getting songs about blackness all the time, about afrocentrism, the importance of roots, of history. Songs about the injustice that has been done to Prince, to the black people. Well, hmm, Prince, you haven't technically picked cotton in anyone's fields yourself, have you? In fact, you have quite a luxurious life in America, don't you? Better than the vast majority of America's white citizens. Fair enough if you want to write songs about injustice, but these songs overstep the mark, valuing words over ideas and valuing the past over the present.

Prince. Where people come from, doesn't matter. Where words come from, doesn't matter, either; it's what we mean by them that counts. Stop dredging up ancient history and preaching about which race is more righteous than the next, because, frankly, it's disturbing.

Melody said:
I hear racism in what you wrote here.


And it wasn't even so long ago you wrote:

"If the air is a little thick in this room 2nite
I reckon it's the result of an onslaught of separatist rookies
Overcome by this colorful sight

Talkin' so fast that even they
Talkin' so fast that even they
Don't know what they mean

Of all the things that base a rhyme
How is it that U everytime
Regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?"

Melody said:
Did you not realize that he was FEELING the racism? as a Black man?

unremarkable said:

No, it's offensive when someone who cant dance fucks up the electric slide..get your ass back to holdin up the wall

CalhounSq said:

they got french vanilla crunch n'munch now???

Where did you hear racism? And: of course I do.

unremarkable said:

In criticizing his right to talk about his feelings although
his feelings might not be soothing to you.
After all, you were not part of the problem... this
all happened in the past.
Then why are you offended?
Unless you do see yourself as part of the ongoing problem?

I think you are wrong about Dinner with delores...
I hear:" dancing like a WILD girl..."
Wich sounds more logical to me.

spx said:

Actually it is "Dancing Like A White Girl, on Disco Dirty Floors..."

Prince can talk about his feelings as much as he likes, but when he tells me white folks dance worse than black folks, it's as racist as me telling you black people aren't as clever as white people.

That's a recognized phallacy, by the way.

Exactly--anyone can have bad rhythm. But that's not what Prince seems to believe, is it?

And, for what it's worth, I don't care about my nationality, but if anyone tells me I can't dance, they've got an argument on their hands.

From the "normal" language of the 80s albums, we suddenly get tracks full of "nigga" and "check 1,2", "brothas"...I don't recall a "hood" anywhere, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

1. From this I assume "normal" language is language which contains no black slang or references to black brotherhood.

2. "Suddenly"?

"What u lookin' for, nigga?" -Cloreen Baconskin, 1983
"I'm the kinda brotha that the more you scream..." -Horny Toad, 1982
"My sister didn't give a goddamn" -Sister, 1980 heehee