Does Anyone Even Care Anymore?

So only 3 weeks left, or whatever. I'm running out of things to complain about. I never thought I'd say that. Have you seen Waiting yet? If not, check it out, it hilarious. But watch out for the brain. I guess I should talk about mass communications or something, but I'm not really feelin it. I like those fake names like Phil Macrackin or I.P. Freely. My favorite is Heywood Jablome. I think I'm still drunk. Anyway. Down to business.
So I'm kinda salty at Lindsey for the discussion yesterday on racism in the media. Somehow, she shifted it back so that she was talking about women's issues again. I'm a dude. I dont' care about women's issues all that much. Yeah, the media makes chicks look like sluts or whatever. If girls didn't buy into it and dress and act like sluts, it wouldn't be a problem. The media would change their portrayals if the images they were using didn't sell their products. Racism is in the same vein. The image of blacks has been somewhat static for the last decade or so. Chicks are chickenheads, and dudes are thugs. Both are entirely hedonistic, concerned with instant gratification. Sex, drugs, violence. These are realms of blacks in the media. Look at music. In the early 90s, rap was in an afrocentric phase--black is beautiful and all that. The in 1992, The Chronic, Dr. Dre's first solo album, came out. Sex, drugs and violence. But suburban white kids ate it up. Record execs realized that they could make boatloads of cash by selling dramatized urban life to white kids in need of a danger fix. A decade later, nothing has changed. Is it because blacks haven't changed, or because the media won't let them change? How else can you explain a song where the chorus is, "wait till you see my dick"? But white kids love it. Go out this weekend. I guarantee you'll see some white kids jammin out to it. The worst part of it is, blacks have adopted the media image. They actually think that is how they're supposed to dress and act. So now, every black guy has some baggy jeans, a chain, a flatbrimmed ball cap cocked to the side. It's like, dude, you're from Centralia. You've never even seen a ghetto. But they have to look the part.