A decision had to be made. The point being: Here, for a moment, was music that actively dragooned me into paying attention to it, based not primarily on sound, performance or composition, but on the rolling snowball of perspectives, close readings and ideological disputes accreting around it. When and where will we listen to it? Will other people be there? Should people own music?

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Despite the advancement of colored people, the nigger continues to rear its three or more heads:. The grotesque head , most notably, recently, on the University of Oklahoma frat bus. Commenting on the nigger in the psyche shufflin' down to the nigger in African American visual art in the mid-to-late s, cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr.