BBC faces ridicule

(2015)

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk)

White monkey see; White monkey do.

Anything Blacks can do, Whites can do better!

Caucasoids are even good at things they know nothing about!

Summary: Critique of “Ed Sheeran, the most influential man in black and urban music”.

Whites make these kinds of choices, so that one can never expect anything else other than White supremacy from them. If Whites cannot be better than Black people, on their own merit, Whites will attempt to tear down individual Blacks or Black people, as a whole, to maintain their allegedly-superior position.

Whites lack both the imagination and the cultural values to produce music people want to listen to, so must take from others; while pretending to be better than those others with whom they cannot compete. Like all forms of affective plagiarism, it is difficult to hide the fons et origo of any creation without having to demonstrate a clear understanding of the creation that gives ones claims to have created it their necessary credibility: Like a White Blues’ singer, it is peculiar because it does not and cannot originate in White culture.

To claim that this decision has nothing to do with skin color makes no sense since labeling an award with an explicit reference to the skin pigmentation being denied is patently-absurd: Like claiming the Oscar for best actress has nothing to do with gender.

In reality, of course, Black music has nothing to do with skin color - it is about Black culture - a culture Whites wish to jealously-emulate while disparaging it. Whites do this based upon the philosophy of White superiority as the ridiculous attempt of a numerical minority (Caucasians) to bolster their own short-comings at the expense of everyone else.

Such short-comings reflect the usual White combination of indignant resentment, malignant defensiveness & intellectual irrelevancy; while Whites also manage to be both self-pitying and self-aggrandizing, at the same time. This white fragility triggers such defensive moves as outward displays of emotions (unusual for usually-repressed Whites) such as anger, fear & guilt and behaviors such as peevish argumentation, sullen silence & reality-evasion - as witness the White emotional regression of the BBC.

Whites black-up and then saying that such minstrel mimicry has nothing to do with Whites’ inbred fear of Black people. It allows Whites (they would like to think) to claim the ability to define Blackness so that they can control both it and their fear of it, by claiming to both be Black and to know what Blacks think - something Whites can never know. In this, Whites are like those primitive tribes who wear the skins of fearsome predators to help overcome their fear of being predated; while hoping, in so doing, to become feared themselves. Yet such White ignorance of other cultures helps explain White racial fears in the first place - as the primitive tribespeople still remain fearful after donning the skins of hunted animals.

Whites evade their own cultural emptiness by mimicking others to provide themselves with a pseudo-culture that their self-chosen, emotionally-repressive ways deny them. Rejecting the people of other cultures, while embracing the forms of other cultures, allows Whites to appear anti-racist while actually being wholly racist in pretending that other cultures somehow belong to them - to do with as they wish. Moreover, Whites secretly believe Black bodies are still their property despite slavery being outlawed in the West.

Whites also, thereby, claim that adopting other cultures while avoiding physical contact with members of those other cultures (except through slumming), allows them to become insiders to those cultures so that Whites never have to listen to anything anyone else says about their own culture because Whites somehow, magically, already know the answers to any questions they might think to ask about anyone and anything else: They do not trust others enough to believe their answers, anyway, since Whites are ruled by a terrible fear that People of Color are engaged in a conspiracy to arrange the downfall of Whites because this is what Whites would do in their place, if the racial power-dynamic were reversed.

Whites always fear to admit they are ignorant of anything - despite their being the most ignorant ethnic group in the world - since this would be tacit proof that they are not the Master Race they claim to be. So, Whites project their own emptiness onto others in the hope of turning those others into mirrors reflecting the imagined greatness of White genes. It is the standard White claim to a full humanity, which understands, knows & experiences all - a wisdom Whites deny others could ever possess.

Because Whites are raised to fear anything not like them, they fear practically everyone else: The vast majority of the world’s population is not like them, after all. Pretending knowledge of others is the result of the White dread of admitting they cannot achieve what White supremacy promises them - control of everything as a substitute for the self-control they lack.

Whites think they can understand Black experience - without the necessity of actual experience - so that they can understand the music it produces - without experience. But it is merely a case of White monkey see; White monkey do - it is empty pastiche.

Whites can only mimic Black music (never understand it nor improve on it): A realization that inevitably leads to ridiculing the forms they appropriate (precisely because such forms have no deep cultural significance for them) to reveal the truth that White cultural homage is just another form of White supremacy. Such behavior is not frightening to Whites because it does not confront them with White guilt; while allowing them to let off steam through overt racism. As with all cultural appropriation, only the form is copied not the meaning or the intent, especially since the latter, here, are never flattering about White culture and its need of racial scapegoats.

Either only people who know what it is like to be Black are the only ones allowed on the list or the list becomes about Urban Music without any reference to a Blackness Whites never experience, can never understand & can never adequately copy. But the Instituitional Racism of the BBC could never cope with this, as it would remove a necessary means for them to mock the Black people Whites fear.

White supremacy is always confused about its desire to hide its expression, but never confused about its goal: White supremacy. The next thing you know, Whites will be claiming to be the best at Jewish music.

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