Talk:Free Your Mind

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Does anyone else think that lines like

Oh my, forgive me for having straight hair / It doesn't mean there's another blood in my heirs

and maybe

I might date another race or color / It doesn't mean I don't like my strong black brothers

kind of miss the point of anti-racism?

You've got a point there. The first line in particular holds terrible connotations, although likely quite unintentionally. 82.181.61.48 13:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

That's not true--I think the lines were just dealing with the stereotypes associated with "having straight hair" or dating outside your race. In fact, I think en vogue is actually trying to say that the African-American community can be quite racist when it comes to situations as well, which is very brave of them. 70.176.189.139 06:42, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I must disagree, considering other similar lines, which are clearly unambiguously anti-stereotype ("I wear hiphop clothes / it doesn't mean I'm selling dope"), it would seem that the above lines attempt to be that, too, but don't quite succeed. Anyway, no point arguing, and this isn't the proper place to do it anyway. 82.181.37.241 20:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)