Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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I wasn't making *that* connection.  Just using that video as an example of 
violence and the transgender reference as a way to idenitify it.  It was a 
couple days after it was released before I knew anything about the gender of the 
victim.  Seems like there has been a rash of videos of urban violence.  And the 
fact that these attacks end up on video says something too.

Mike F.   




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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 2:50:14 PM
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

>I think the current urban/hip hop culture is full of poison and very little, if 
>any, good comes out of >it, unless you consider beatings of white transgenders 
>in McDonalds a positive. 
 
Hmmm... you cannot pin hip hop culture on an attack on transgenders.  Many 
attacks on gays and trangenders have come from white communities.  There was an 
incident where two marine thought a gay guy had flirted with them.  So they 
walked up and punched him in the back of the head so hard he was hospitalized.
 
I would say tha it is the attitude that gays/lesbians/trans people are 
perverts/freaks/undesireables that/abnormal feeds the kind of violent attacks 
like we saw in the McDonald's Incident.
 
Not that Hip Hop doesn't have issues with gays...it DOES.  But so does Sports 
culturr, religious culture and many others.

Thom
http://thomwade.wordpress.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade
http://www.in-one-ear.com
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