During an hour-long conversation, the Seattle rapper Macklemore was brutally honest with his perspective on racism as a “white person” and being nervous to touch the subject. “For me, as a white rapper, I’m like, how do I participate in this conversation?” he said. “How do I get involved on a level where I’m not co-opting the movement or I’m not making it about me, but also realizing the platform that I have and the reach that I have and doing it in an authentic way?” He decided that there’s no better way than to just jump right in no matter how tense the dialogue. “White people, we can just turn the TV off when we’re sick of talking abut race,” noted the Grammy winner. “It does not work that way for everybody, and the thing for me is, like, white liberal people wanna be nice. We don’t wanna mess up. We don’t wanna be racist.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:05:41 +0000
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