Apparently listening to rock music makes white people racist. A recent study at the University of Minnesota concluded that listening to rock music such as "Bruce Springsteen (really?!) and the White Stripes causes white people to favor their own race at a detriment to others."
Does this leave anyone else as perplexed as it does me? Some of the biggest names in the history of Rock and Roll have been black. In the cartoon I included Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and Slash from Guns 'N Roses because they are all black (Slash being half Jewish) and they come from different generations of rock music. I also selected them because they are also some of my favorite musicians.
Rock music was one of the first establishments in American pop culture to break through racial barriers. Some could say that Chuck Berry was the pioneer of rock. John Lennon once said, "if you had to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."
Not only is this study completely irresponsible because it aims to cause bigger gaps in the racial divide, it is a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. If we as taxpayers are going to subsidize higher education in this county, do we really want to be contributing to stupid studies such as these?
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