Hip-hop

HumanityCritic over at Vibe writes:

Being the offspring of a man who was raised in the deep South, where being called a racial epithet was as common as someone commenting on the weather - a place so racially oppressive that my tales of not being able to catch a cab or being called "articulate" would seem like a Swedish massage - my father instilled one thing in my head from August of 1973 to February of 2001. That message - words that are seared on my cerebellum like a tattoo - was, "You have to work twice as hard as the white man to get ahead!!"... When I'd work certain jobs and reached a level of importance, even though I didn't have a history of incompetence, every decision that I made was checked, double-checked, and second-guessed... I had to prove in the subtlest of terms that I was indeed the smartest motherfucker in the room. I'm mad at myself that I even did that - I shouldn't have. That's where I see the parallel with the White MC.