Do white people think that black people don't know anything about Rock music!


Question: and do white people think black people don't belong in Rock bands and should stick to Hip-Hop?


Answers: and do white people think black people don't belong in Rock bands and should stick to Hip-Hop?

I don't think white people think black people shouldn't be in rock bands, it's just a simple fact that there aren't many black people in rock bands these days.

There have been some great black rockers over the years, many of them pioneers in the industry. Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Jimi, Stevie Wonder (who rocked early in his career - remember "Superstition"). But think about it, right now the biggest name is probably Lenny Kravitz, there aren't many others. Darius Rucker had a run with Hootie and the Blowfish, but we haven't heard from them in a while.

Jimi is still the most influential guitarist that has ever lived, I think.

I think most people, black or white (or anything else) will listen to music they like regardless of the race of the performer. Without knowing for sure, I would guess that more white people have Jimi Hendrix albums than Eminem, and more black people have Eminiem albums than Lenny Kravitz.

I think this topic is a little like the proverbial chicken and the egg - are there few blacks in rock because white people don't listen to them, or do white people not listen to black rockers because there aren't many? I really think it's the latter more than the former.

Good question!

I think that's a good question. Everyone thinks black and spanish people are just thugs that listen to hip-hop and rap. I'm spanish and i listen to all types of music. from tupac all the way to coldplay or good charlotte.

Who can be so craze to think, the skin color can be related to any kind of music? It's not true.

Ok, well--I'm black& I know a hell of a lot about rock.
In your experience, you must've run into some ignorant people. I've never heard any in *my* exp' saying we oughta stick to hip hop.

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Dude, it's common knowledge that we started rock. At least that *should* be.

I think no such thing. Anyone who has ever studied the roots of rock understand the tremendous contribution made to that genra by the African American community. The earliest rockers in the UK learned R&B from black soldiers during WWII. At least that is how it has been explained to me.

Haven't any of you youngsters ever heard of Jimi Hendrix for heavens sake?

No. I don't believe in such ignorant ideas. Those beliefs and convictions are just utterly moronic!

It's a stereotype, they assume that because there're a lot of black people in the hip hop/rap genre, and a lot of white people in the rock genre, they seem to think it's a rule.

African American people have contributed soooo much to music that most people dont know....If you take Elvis, he got most of his learning from them and thats how he got started.Graceland was built off the backs of Black artists rock `n' roll was actually born out of the belly of Black blues music and raised by Black artists in the 1950s in smoke-filled clubs
along Beale Street in Memphis, 47th Street in Chicago and 125th Street in Harlem
While it is a stretch to say that black people
gave the world country music, African immigrants and their descendants did give
America's heartland music a range of
musical style influences, one of its earliest
dominant instruments--the banjo--its first recording using another of its dominant
instruments--the steel guitar--and many of
its earliest and subsequent practitioners,
teachers and audience members.
In my opinion after Elvis, the whites started copying old songs of the blacks,therefore the black artists were getting ripped off and not given credit where credit was due... I could go on and on...
Its like Ive raised my kids... you have to appreciate all music to enjoy music...

yeah, sadly, black people are often sterotyped with rap and hip hop and white people are generally thought of as rock people, of course there are some exceptions, eminem, KoRn etc

Its a stereotype, and not a good one. Many people assume that since I'm in my 40s that I should be listening to Barry Manilow or something like that. Blech! I do think that the stereotype is perpetuated when those of us who go to rock concerts and see that most of the people attending are white.

Back in the 80s, I knew a good number of non-white people who were into rock, and a number of those went to more rock concerts than I did.

As a side note to all of this, I went to a rock concert (Van Halen) earlier this month with my son and some friends. There was an older black man there with his son a few rows behind us and the son clearly would have rather had his fingernails pulled out with pliers than be there. Afterwards though, I heard the son talking about how amazing the concert was and was asking his father if they could go to another. If that young man hadn't been exposed to rock that evening, he may still think it wasn't for him. A lot of what someone listens to depends on what music they are exposed to, thankfully, I was one that was exposed to a great variety of music through my life.

i agree but as my loving white friends came to learn that i know more bout rock than they do! My friends were shocked to hear me sing living on a prayer by bon-jovi and after that they later realised that i listern to plecebo, muse, good charlotte, falloutboy, Korn, Marlyn Mansion... etc
Now they have given me a nick name blackpunkrocker!

By the way i am South African!

I sure don't, but naturally, I can't speak for all white folks. I actually think Rock music originated with Robert Johnson and then Little Richard gave it a voice.

Whoa!

Stereotype much?

Black or white,it shouldn't make a difference.

i would say to the white people
Go F*ck Yourselfs if they think that
i dont nessecarily think they think that
everyone has there own talent
howd you come up with this question?

you haven't listened to any rolling stones are watched any of their videos have you they have quite a mixed band and they are the greatest rock in roll band in the world they been doing it for forty plus years and have you ever heard of a man called chuck berry I'm sure you have

You're generalizing - not all white people think that. Most of the people I saw at the 24-7 Spyz concert, Fishbone concert, and Follow-For-Now concert were white. When I saw footage of a Bad Brains concert, there were plenty of white people there. Same with Jimi Hendrix. Same with Body Count. And of course Living Colour.

I've also never heard white people say that blacks don't belong in rock bands (after all, the Dead kennedys had a black drummer, J.F.A. had a black bass player, Suicidal Tendencies had a black lead guitarist, the Thomson Twins had a black keyboardist, McRad and Underdog had a black lead guitarist (Chuck Treece, who is also a skateboarder)). That's all I can think of right now but I know there is more.

Maybe it's because I live in a more metropolitan area that I have not encountered these prejudices.

Ever heard of Mother's Finest, a black rock band that kicks ***??



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