Eminem grew up in a trailer park in Warren, nikkas saying he had 90% percent black friends are way off the mark.
The post that someone made was the 90% of
Detroit (where Em grew up) is black. And as already pointed out above he didn't live in a trailer park.
It did show, he made the tapes. He's said other shyt which has been more subliminal too.
Yeah I don't know about Eminem and Proof, but it still doesn't mean cause he liked proof he can't be preduice. I know of people with black relatives that are MAD racist, I mean serious extreme racist shyt.
There are articles about the Proof/Eminem situation, I will try to find it. If not somebody else may be able to do that.
I'm not saying Eminem has to speak out against black problems. My only point was I didn't agree with the racist tapes, or forgive him as his apology was unacceptable. Others have a right to do what they wish, I'm speaking for myself.
I've seen a lot of things that suggest preduice yes. Over the years, will dig up some things at some point. Also there is a debate about the age he was during the tapes, some say he was 21.
Eminem in my opinion hasn't had that clear huge evolution or atoned for what he did wrong in the past properly. How can there be forgiveness without proper contrition?
There are different levels of racism/prejudice. Like I said I'm not saying Eminem wants to murder all black people, but I do believe a predudice exists.
I don't think you are grasping the concept of BEST FRIEND. I don't know how you can compare someone's best friend to a teammate/co-worker/relative. You don't choose who you work with or are related to (well for the most part). Your best friend is someone who means more to you than almost anyone else on the planet. Completely different scenarios.
It does look like you might be right about being different ages with different tapes. 1998 (16) with Foolish Pride. 1993 (21) with So Many Styles. So instead of being a dumbass kid for 1 year, it went on for a couple years. I'll still go with my thief analogy - if someone is a criminal for 5 years, but turns around and becomes a better person, what good does it do to continue to hold past actions against them?
And again I think you're just holding Eminem to your own expectations. I would agree that he could have given a better apology, but it is what it is. He still apologized for it. If he said "I'm sooooooooooo sorry, I was wrong for what I did" - would it really make you feel any better? And no matter what he says it still doesn't change the fact that he did what he did, and that the past is the past.
It's not like he personally went up to some girl and called her a n****. It's not like he has an individual to apologize to. It's not like he put those tapes out for the general public to hear either. He made that shyt in his basement while messing around. You're asking him to apologize for something he didn't even fully contribute to (in terms of having an audience to what he was saying/hurting people's feelings). I'm not saying that as an excuse or anything, because what he did and said was still wrong no doubt about it. But if those tapes stay in his basement collecting dust, and if Marshall never becomes Eminem, those tapes never have any effect on anyone at all other than a few white friends.
Say I write some hate letters towards somebody, but never show those to them and just toss that stuff in my desk. Then I go on with the next 20 years of my life without writing other hate letters or doing anything disrespectful towards them and get along with them fine. Then one day they happen to find it and read it. Am I supposed to apologize for something I never intended to show them in the first place? "Uh yea, I wrote some bullshyt about you when I was younger, I didn't think enough of it to make an issue out of it in everyday life......but uh sorry anyways"
Also everything Eminem does is put under a microscope because of who he is. If he's just a normal dude, nobody gives a fukk. Coli members can come on here and post cac this cac that and can do and say whatever the hell they want (and most of the time they're just fukking around). But if they get famous, people are going to pull up their comments and say "look at what you said! You're a racist! Apologize!" You're holding Em to a higher standerd than you would a regular person (such as people on this forum). If someone says the n-word on here you're not going to ask them to apologize for it and post some long, thought out essay on why they were wrong. You'll just tell them to fukk off.