"What? Really?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7un2SZBT6A

I chose the above youtube song because it is absolutely outrageous! It has everything to do with what we have been studying thus far. It is outright racist and full of bigotry!

From Zinn to Takaki to Johnson, we have been reading about the history of racism from the beginning of time and how it still exists today. Yet, today we not only have people just saying derogatory racist things, but making music about it as well!


I find the video and song to be absolutely repulsive and unnecessary. What reason or rationale would one have to justify such a thing and why doesn't youtube regulate some of this stuff? I have a coworker whose son's best friend was beaten in a park and it was because he is a self proclaimed bisexual. He is only twelve years old. They put the beating on youtube and it was allowed. I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech but some of it is just blatantly wrong and/or illegal. It makes me shake my head and want to ask, "What? Really?"

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7un2SZBT6A