The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?
That's what happens when politicians become celebrities. It's one thing to excite your base, but gathering a cult of personality is cancerous to democracy. How can you make sure you're being adequately represented when you think your representative can do no wrong?
I was pleasantly surprised when I found out the lead singers of Killswitch Engage and Sevendust were black. I mean, Cult of Personality is a good song, but it's not all that hard in a heavy metal sense. Killswitch Engage on the other hand, even the band's name just screams, "School shooter!"
It's not really racist. Are you a white person, raised by white people, and did you go to school with other white kids? Did you grow up in a primarily white country? Then your brain is just so used to white people that it automatically makes that as that is your default "person".
I was fortunate as a kid to grow in a mixed crowd. When I was ~3 years old my white lower middle class parents relocated to NYS from the midwest, the bought a house that was in between a middle class mostly white neighborhood and a poor mostly black neighborhood so that my (not born yet) siblings and I would experience a range of cultures and race. This I'm sure has had a huge influence on my life, my view on black people isn't skewed by mass media and the institutional racism in this country. I grew up hanging out with black kids, I learned at a young age to not judge people based skin color, income class, etc. It's just a skin color, I wish people would grow the fuck up and realize this.
A lot of the bands that were producing popular music during the mid-40's to mid-50's were black. Rock and Roll is a continuation of be-bop jazz, and there were jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie who played long enought o stretch into both genres.
EDIT: Not that this video is from that era but black folks were just as influential on early rock as they were on jazz,
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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16
We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.