Race and America (was Re: Oakland highlights)

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Mon Jan 11 15:22:38 PST 1999


On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, John Kawakami wrote:


> Nah. I see way too much apartheid in television commercials. The old
> stand-up comedian joke is that whenever they do a black McDonald's
> commercial, they have to get all the whites out and ship the blacks in.
> I listen to a lot of pop radio, and get that same apartheid vibe all over.

By "mestizo" I don't mean the corporate mainstream, I mean the truly progressive works of art -- hip hop, animation, video, anime, etc. -- at the margins of that mainstream. The medium is very far indeed from the message.

-- Dennis



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