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Jim Crow portrayed by Waka Flocka

AUSTIN CONE

In Flocka's hit song "Grove st. Party" he perpetuates the Jim crow crow stereotype:

[Waka Flocka Flame - Chorus]

I gotta a whole lot of money, bitches count it for me
Bottle keep poppin that's why the bad hoes jockin

It's a party It's a party It's a party
It's a party It's a party It's a party

My partner on a pill, my other partner drunk, rollin a lot I'm trying to get fucked up

It's a party It's a party It's a party
It's a party It's a party It's a party

Wakka Flocka is a new american rapper who almost always perpetuates the Jim Crow stereoype in every song.  The Jim crow stereotype is African Americans  feeling the need to always party and have a good  time.  This song is herd by many americans everyday and is seen too young people as the way of life. He portrays the notion that the only way for rappers to make a lot of money is by forcing the idea that the partying life is fun and ok.  It seems like the majority of  artist who use the Jim crow stereotype are of the African American race. This is backwards to me because the Jim crow stereotype was created  to put black's in a lower class than whites.

Dark-skin vs. Light-skin?

    Today in american society, many African-Americans are still left with the bitterness of slavery. Even though slavery was abolished in 1865, the events that occured seemed to leave the race seperated and somehow against each other. It all goes back to slavery and there being 2 different types of slaves, the field slaves and the house slaves. Usually if you were darkskin then you would have to work the fields but if you were lightskin you had the privilege of working in the house, having it a bit easier to be a slave because the master felt because you were lighter, you were closer to being white instead of more African. Because of this many house slaves began to believe that they were better than the field slaves because they were lighter and had it easier. The field slaves then started to envy them because they had a better advantage.  Even after many years alot of African-Americans still hold on to this stereotype that being lighter is better than being darker because it traces back so long ago. It is now 2012 and most African-Americans have started to accept the fact they ware beautiful no matter what shade they are, while some still feel that being lighter is better than being darker. In the end, everyone within the African-American race is beautiful and honestly, shade doesn't really matter.

B.I.G. promotes Jim crow stereotype

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Notorious B.I.G. shows the present-day Jim Crow sterotype  in his song  "Party and Bullshit" :

Verse II:
Honey want to chat 
but all we wanna know is where the party at 
and can I bring my gat?  If not, I hope I don't get shot

The Jim crow stereotype is a black person only wanting to have fun all the time  and live life like a joke.  This song does indeed perpetuate this stereotype.  It shows this because that's all notorious wants to know is where the parties at.  Nothing else matters, not even a girl thats trying to talk with him.   

Chorus:
and party and bullshit and party and bullshit X 5
and party and bullshit and X 1

The chorus also betrays this stereotype.  The chorus is basically the Jim crow steroype itself  but in the words of Notorious.  Even though the Jim crow sterotype was more popular in the past it's still  brought up in the present day.   Not just in music but the news and in  books.   B.I.G. is not the only person who perpetuates the Jim crow stereotype in a song and  he certainly will not be the last.  It seems like the only way for black rappers to succeed in the rap industry is if they use the Jim crow sterotype in there music.      

 

All Black People Like Chicken.

 

    In this video clip comidian dave chappelle talks about the stereotype that all black people like chicken. Though he dose exaggerate, he tells us about how people in our modern day all believe this stereotype is true.  This is a perfect example of raceism in America. It takes place in every state.  Dave is basically saying if your are black and raised in a African American family you will like chicken. This is by no means true. America's two most popular meats are beef and chicken. African Americans dont make up the majority of America's population. This tells us that Chicken is popular among all races. Many people in America are black but dont care for chicken. Just becauce you are a certain race dose not mean you only like to eat the food that the majority of your race enjoys. That Goes for all races.

I Am Not My Hair. April Bell

There has always been the stereotype of your hair makes you, especially if your black. The song "I Am Not My Hair" describes the stereotypes perfect.  The difference between the whites and black has supposely been distunish from each others hair. The song is saying your hair does not define you. And she uses hair because it is often an issue that arises with African American women. In society black people who like to wear their natural hair is "not good hair."  or as she says in the song "bad hair means you look like a slave" , or is put down for having no hair. In this song she had to realize whatever people told her about her hair does not mean anything because its about the inside beauty. Black women with no hair has not seemed to be expected. And the stereotype of black being "bald-headed" is not right. People do not know how low that can make a person.  

Racist Stereotypes in America

"There is a Black Guy and a Mexican Guy in a Car who is Driving? Neither the Cop Is!"

People make jokes about black people and mexican people always getting in trouble with the law. There is a really big racist stereotype that thoes races are always commiting crimes and getting arrested. Stereotypes like these are only passed down because of the racist ways that the media shows only certain races getting in trouble with the law or commiting a crime. This shows America that this is a typical thing and that they are the only ones pretty much that are commiting crimes and not the white people. This like many other stereotypes are extremly exaggerated and completely wrong. America controls what they want you to see as the bad and the good.

Stereotypes of America(Movie:Crash)

In my opinion the movie Crash shows and explain what a stereotype is, in different scenarios and this movie also tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless all defined in one way or another by racism.with free will, and anything can happen. It'samazing how every character played in this movie live a different life with different careers and have been or are going through different things for example scared to walk past an African American man thinking he would rob them or an Arab not being able to purchase an item and being called Osama. These are certain events that took place in this movie.Us being people sometimes we fail to face and acknowledge the things that are done and said in our society.At the end of the day the movie Crash will open your eyes.

President Obama

    The Jim Crow Stereotype is a simple-minded, happy and content black man. This stereotype is saying all black men do not have their own opinion and are happy just to go with the flow of things. I believe this stereotype has been erased from our society.

    President Obama is a perfect example of how this stereotype is no longer a part of our society. Barack Obama is a black man who is the president of the United States.  Having a black president proves that the American people do not believe the Jim Crow stereotype is true.  President Obama is also not simple-minded he believes in change for the better. President Obama does not go with the flow. While being president he removed all the troops out of Iraq. President Obama has succesfully erased the Jim Crow stereotype.

Cultural Analysis Racial Stereotypes

Racial steryotypes of both Whits and Blacks are shown in the TV show, The Cleveland Show. Cleveland is a character orignally from Family Guy, but that's not what i'm talking about. Cleveland lives in Stoolbend Virginia, a town from whence he grew up in. There are a bunch of racial stereotypes put into this TV show. the stereotypes are put into the show comically.

Donna Tubbs, Cleveland's wife, is a perfect example of an angry black woman, as she flips out, whenever Cleveland does something stupid, or something doesn't go right. Seth Macfarlane made it so she'd flip out at the most comical of moments. Cleveland, isn't so much of a brute, however, he takes action when he needs to. Cleveland is more of a Somba, as he is passive and musical, at points. Cleveland's son is also a Somba as he's VERY passive and very nonviolent. Donna's daughter is oversexualized, mainly as the fact that whatever she does, she wants to have sex with her boyfriend, but Cleveland forbids it. Rallo, Cleveland's step son, is more of a brute, but he's only five. Rallo is a gangster for his age, he doesn't do anything violent but he acts like he's all cool, especially around his friends.

Cleveland's white neighbor's also go along with white stereotypes. Lester is a redneck, who's pretty stupid and always carries a gun with him. Lester's wife is the size of an elephant, sits on a scooter chair, as she's too fat to walk. Cleveland's other white neighbor, Holt, is a dwarf and who claims to be rich, even though he lives in his mother's basement. Cleveland does have a friend who a walking, and talking bear, with bear claws. Tim, the bear, doesn't really fit any racial stereotypes as he's not black or white, however he is a christian, or at least claims to be. Tim may be christian, but he looks for ways to get drunk, when hanging out with Cleveland.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlVNcM2Vw&feature=relmfu 

Stereotypes:Dave Chappelle different food

 This clip is about Dave Chappelle doing his stand up comedy. He talks about how certain groups of people only eat certain types of food. This shows that stereotypes still exist everywhere and how they are constantly changing. He says an example of how black people only eat chicken and watermelon, while white people only eat vegetables and drink grape juice. Dave Chappelle uses these sterotypes to his advantage. He makes fun of them and over exaggerates them, which makes them funny.

Brutes In Today's Society

In our American Studies class we have been talking about race.  One of the topics we have been going over are typical stereotypes that were used in slave times.  We were asked if these stereotypes were still present in today's society.  The answer is yes.

The BRUTE was a typical stereotype after slavery was abolished.  This term was brought up because people thought that freed African Americans we these savage mean animals.  This was really a fear for some people because they were scared to even be around a African American just because they thought they would kill them.    

I believe that this sterotype is still around and it is portayed in rap music.  Rap music is assoceated with this tough ganster type thugs that people are supposed to be scared of.  A perfect example of this thug type would be the rapper 50 Cent. 

This just renforces the stereotype that the brute is a person to be scared of.  It also is about there lyrics in there songs that promote this brute attitudes alot of them but not all of them are about hurting people and killing people.  People who have never heard rap music and listen to the lyrics could be scared by the things they say. 

 

 

Racist

Does racial slurs just affect black people only or is it a all around thing? Sometimes i would rarely hear racial slurs but one time i was getting ready to go to the beach and this chinesse lady was sitting next to this black dude and she moved over and the black dude said this doesnt come off and he pointed to his skin and they both started arguing and it was funny but at the same time i was insulted as well.

Scene From Blind Side (Black Stereotype)

    In the movie the Blind Side actress Sandra Bullock plays a Leigh Anne Tuohy a white woman who takes in a Homeless teenage boy named Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) and shows him that he can acheive a good education and a postive lifestyle. She and her family welcomes him in with open arms and shows him what a loving home is. They also help him with his intrest in football which led him to his current carreer in the NFL.

    A scene that stuck out to me during this movie [Blind Side] was when Leigh Anne was at a lunch with some over her other upper class friends at a very nice five star restuarant and they commmented on her motive for helping Michael. They assumed it was not for the greater good and for publicty, when she corrected them they asked her how she could take a black boy in, and how could she be okay with him sleeping under the same roof as her sixteen year old daughter, assuming the worst about a black male they knew nothing about. The racial comments disturbed Leigh and she left. What made this scene stick out to me was that how could people who knew nothing about someone judge them only and completly off the color of there skin. This was example to me of sterotypes of black men and that they can only do bad.

    

For Colored Girls (And the black girls sterotype)

 
This Tyler Perry original movie was about several African American girls in New York who are all interconnected due to and series of unfortunate events. An all black cast in this movie these girls are all basically every stereotype ever thought of by african american females as  whores,clueless,male dependent, lonely,ignorant,nosey.they were never portryed as a strong powerful woman that they were.By the director being African american I would believe that he would understand this an break the mold.The male counterpartsin this movie we just as poorly portryed as the female roles they were thought of as abusive and lying,sneaky,violent people this movie helped put everything racially thought of in this movie.As a whole this movie  was amazing I just wish that african american roles went so poorly chosen. 

Madea, the Symbol of the Typical Black Woman?

Tyler Perry, other wise known as Madea,is a global symbol of the typical African Amercian woman.  Being naturally agressive, yet at the same time caring to others in the house hold.  Being a man of great sense of humor, could his symbol be seen as a racistal figure as well? think of Madea from another race's point of view, how would you react towards black females knowing they could be like this symbol and be aggressive at any moment? would you be afraid to aproach said females?  These are the questions that come along with modern day society. 

There are many things that can be used to descibe african american females, but tyler perry likes to stick to the "facts" and "stories" that come along with this culture of females.  In african american households, the female is portrayed as the ruler of the house.  She lays the laws essentially, but at the same time she isn't the ruler. The african american male obeys the females rules but he knows he is controlling, but doesn't need to say so.  Basically speaking, the African american female plays a strong role in her household.