I disagree that we cannot sing along with any of these songs. I know a lot about my ancestry and i had intelligent ancestors who were far from racist and grew up working in mills at young ages, growing up from irish immigrants who went through a lot of opression in ireland and then trying to make it in America. I 100% respect the message in all this music and honestly i suck at writing this type of stuff, I work all day everyday and barely have to write shit. But I have a lot of respect for my ancestors who were very tough and poor and far from “Our ancestors signed away that right when they signed their names to contracts that said they owned human beings or signed tabs in restaurants that didn’t allow “colored people.” If your ancestors were abolitionists or civil rights protestors, maybe you knew these things a long time ago, but for the rest of us, our people were either active racists or passive enablers, a pitiful legacy if ever there was one”(very far from that description) this description. But nonetheless, i do listen to alot of hip hop and rap, mostly black artists. Paul Wall and Eminem are by far some of my favorite rappers, and has nothing to do with their race, its because theyre really great at it. Telling white people they should stay on the sidleines and just listen is like telling Paul Wall and eminem they shouldnt make their music. I love and respect all the music just as much, absolutely regardless of race. When you do listen to the music, race does not have to be the first thig you think about. But the fact that these white rappers came up from being so poor and gained their respect and were quite successful tells me its good that they didnt just sit on the sidelines and watch and tell themselves t had nothing to do with them. The message from this article is obviously not as offensive as the segregational history of black people in America, but it does not condone integration at all. Rappers like Paul Wall and Eminem were successful in bringing together racial separatism, although obviously not as much as peopl like MLK jr.. Overall I think this article is beautiful and has a great message, I just take a small amount of offense at saying that if im whit my ancestors were “active racists or passive enablers” because I know a lot about my ancestors and they went through a lot of shit getting here, fighting in wars for US. I also believe I can listen to any song I please and enjoy it as much as i please when Im driving home from a 12 hour shift. I also believe “formation”, although i dont even listen to the song or like it, should include anybody with any kind of struggle, or anyone who relates to it, or just likes it, regardless of race. One major component of the civil rights era was the loss of segragation and i just dont think this article supports that. Other than that, I just want to say I have a ton of respect for any one of any race, I dont really write much but tried to say something, no offense to anybody I reallly dont mean it.