Tag: Cultural Reflections
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My Soulful Love for Music, and why Iām Against Music Elitism
My first introduction to Classical Music came from developing interests through the annals of Black Music, and not in distinct contrast (or opposition) to it. This perspective is very different from the perspective of, for example a White music elitist. I am generally opposed to unrealistic elitist-racialist opinions about music genres fixated in this seeming…
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What should be the role of Black people in this time of political despair?
Just because the world puts empathy for Black people at the bottom of the rung, does not mean we ought to expect the world to put empathy for us at the middle-point or highest rung. No doubt, empathy everywhere by everyone is needed. Just because empathy for Black people is at the bottom of the…
The American Minervan 