RYD SITDOWN TALK ABOUT RACISM with RX, GEECHI GOTTI & PASS

I had my own post for this, but the mods deleted it and said to post in an existing Avocado thread. I disagree with the decision, as there was a lot of good discussion, but I'll repost below.

First off, I'm a very white person, and I am not in a position to say whether Avocado should be forgiven or canceled, or whatever. I watched the 2nd half of his video with Rx and Geechi today. I thought some of it was good, some of it was bad. During the Live, Rx said that she had a lot of respect for Farrakhan, and took a lot from his teachings, although she does not support everything he says.

I had a lot of respect for Rx due to how she conducted herself during the whole back and forth up until that. They were having a conversation about Avocado being canceled for laughing at a racist joke, and how he acted in the room. I am very aware that battle rap, and hip-hop in general is a black culture, and that I'm a guest in it. What I don't like, and think is a major problem, is that other people that are minorities in that culture are discriminated against and it gets brushed off.

I'm a Jewish man. Farrakhan has IN PUBLIC called for the extermination of myself and my entire race. He has called my people termites. He has called us bloodsuckers. He has even said that Jewish people were actually the ones behind the Holocaust. He has also victim-blamed us, saying the Nazi's had no choice but to exterminate the Jews.

I don't want to play the "who is more oppressed" game. I'm aware that it is much easier for me as a white Jewish man to live in America than it is for a black man or woman. I also remember swastika's being painted on my parents garage when I was 7. I remember people making jokes about ashtrays and ovens, when my mothers parents were the only ones out of her family to flee Germany before the camps. I had dozens of family members die in the Holocaust. I remember having to pretend jokes like that weren't such a big deal, because otherwise I thought I would have been ostracized. And lastly, I remember waking up from being passed out at a college party years ago with swastikas drawn all over my face, and when I bugged out about it, I got stomped out. And there are still less Jews in the world today than there were before the Holocaust.

I have no say as a white man as to if Avocado belongs in this culture or not. I think conversations like the one that happened on Live today are really important, and I enjoyed a lot of the discussion. But we are having this conversation about Avocado, but only calling John John the Don a weirdo for being a Holocaust denier. Ice Cube told somebody who called out Farrakhan on twitter to "watch his mouth." Nick Cannon was defended by legions of fans, and people calling for his show to come back, when he said "Jews are responsible for the majority of wickedness that goes on accross the globe."

I do believe that silence is violence. My significant other is a black woman, and we have been on the marches. I've been loud, and I've donated to the ACLU and NAACP. If any white person, or any Jewish person, that I was around was talking down about another minority group, I'm not standing for that shit. Never have, never will. I'm a guest in this culture, but those in it know the pain of people not understanding your pain. Again, I am not saying that I have it as bad, or even close to as bad, as POC in America. For the most part, I come from a place of privilege. I will continue to stand up for black and brown people in America, because what is happening in our country is disgusting and embarrassing. I just wish they would stand up for me as well.

Sorry for the rant. I really love the culture though, and I wanted to say my piece, and hopefully make some people think. Very little had anything to do with battle rap, but watching the video today triggered this stream of thought. If nothing else, it was cathartic.

In conclusion, fuck Farrakhan.

There's a lot of questions to be asked and answered... But the biggest disclaimer should be that the video wasn't just posted or mysteriously leaked a few days ago by some hidden camera. It was posted publicly 5 years ago on a battle rap YouTube channel

On a purely battle rap notion, Geechi slipped the Cal vs Verb in there

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KARMA FOR AVO TRYING TO BAN JEFFERY FROM THE CULTURE AVO IS A CLOWN BITCH

feel like it goes without saying that having your black friends defend you is a bad look on paper

not even going into the content as im sure geechi has some decent insights but

come on man use your head. don't rightfully get called a racist and have the two black staple figures of the channel come up and have a "dialogue"