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Loathsome Tear Drop

Posted 02/20/2008 at 10:12 PM  |  1 comment/s

Someone needs to knock the crack pipe from Amy Winehouse's chapped lips before she appropriates and conflates more things 'hood and ethnic. Already a poor mash up of a chola and Annette Funicello, the other day Winehouse had the gall to paint a teardrop on her long spotty face! Of course, anybody with rudimentary criminal knowledge is aware of what the teardrop means and referencing her Blake's OD is a grave misappropriation. If you're gonna back/brown/'hood it up, do it right. Like all manner of minstrels, Amy's makes a mockery of colored people as she apes them. Some of us don't know any better than to be flattered or enamored but I do. The blackness enveloping her is criminal and tragic and not at all representative of the real thing.

To this question of authenticity, I'd like to reiterate the unimpressiveness of the Mark Ronson-championed school of white soul singers. Countless deal-less Negroes do it better, but it seems like everyone these days, fans of all colors, remain too enamored by whiteness (a vital vestige of white supremacists institutions and imperative of its present day incarnations) to care. Music should be equal opportunity but when all the awe and A&R are reserved for blah blue-eyed soul-singers, the playing field becomes remarkably uneven. If the chunky white chick and the unimpressive white dude below can have industry support than why can't LaToiya Williams!?

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