J.Cole Speaks About Racism In America

Although slavery was abolished over a hundred years ago, and black people are now free men in countries in which they were held as slaves, there is still no equality. This is no longer the 60's, when racism was still very prominent in the southern part of U.S.A, when freed slaves were just getting adjusted into the society in that part of America. This is 2013, where you have hundreds of black millionaires in America, but still, racism prevails.



Just to note, Jermaine Cole's (J.Cole) mother is white, and his father is black, so he is half Caucasian half Negro; but still, he speaks on Racism in America. During a recent interview with BET, he was asked if he has ever experienced racism, and he said...





"For sure, absolutely, I just got pulled over on 42nd street in Times Square for what I believe was nothing. They said it was for tints on my front window, which is barely tinted. I really believe it was because I had my hat low. I was driving through Times Square and I just didn’t want to be seen. So I had my hat low and I think I was looking “suspicious” just as a Black man with my brim low, when I was really just trying to cover my face. They came to my window, pulled me over. I feel like if I was a white man driving, they wouldn’t question me about my tints. They told me to roll down my back window; they look in my car as if they’re looking for something. I feel like that was the real thing, they were trying to catch somebody slipping. That just happened three days ago. I almost didn’t even name that because I am so used to that. That’s something that I feel like somebody my age that’s white doesn’t have to go through, especially in New York City. On the other hand, every time I’m on the plane in first class — this is a lesser evil but it still represents their mind state — I promise you, 60 percent of the time somebody asks me what basketball team do I play for or do I rap. [Laughs] I am a rapper, I wish I could tell them something better — that happens all the time and I hate it. I hate that we’re stereotyped and I hate that I’m fitting into the same stereotype."



Personally, I don't really think it is all about racisms...at least not to the degree people are speaking of it. I think white people see black people as a particular group of people they have to be careful around, because of what majority of black people in ghettos do. They don't necessarily look at the colour of the skin and determine to treat them inferior, but they treat them based on the behaviour of majority of black people in America. When majority of black people clean up their acts, and white's still discriminate against them, then I will call that racism.