@hearkat This is what I wrote Did this a take a turn towards stereotyping? Shaneequa and Kanye? I know people have a stereotype of black women wearing bluetooths and being on the phone when it is innapropriate. I’m talking stereotypes, I realize all sorts of people are on their phones at all hours of the day, all kinds of places. Maybe Kanye is more of a comment about young people on the phone and not race?
Why do you think I don’t know who he is? I am lumping Kanye in with Shaneequa, I spell out well that Shaneequa is a black girl, I guess maybe I could have specifically written maybe Kanye is intended to be about young people and not black people. Still, wouldn’t I need to know who Kanye is to even write what I did write? That I know his audience is also young people?
I first wrote, did this Q take a turn towards racism, but then deleted it because I was afraid everyone would jump all over the word racism, so I toned it down.
I didn’t use the tilde because it is not really sarcasm in my comment. I just didn’t want it to come across as someone crying racism. People jump all over that word racism as being used too much (especially in politics) or ganging up on jellies who do say something that might sound racist. I did not want my comment to be perceived as though I was disgusted with what people wrote, but rather that I saw implications of race stereotyping.