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"I'm Not Racist" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Joyner Lucas, released on November 28, 2017, by Atlantic Records. It features a heated discussion about race and society from the perspective of a white man and a black man. Lucas has said that the song's lyrics represent the uncomfortable race talk that people shy away from. [5]
I'm not racist; I have black friends" (variant: "Some of my best friends are black" [1] [2]) is a saying sometimes used by white people to claim that they are not racist towards black people. The phrase, which gained popularity in the mid-2010s, has since sparked many internet memes and debates over racial attitudes.
An assistant headteacher, Len Idle, said the song was "probably racist". Rucka Rucka Ali subsequently picked the quote as the title of his next album, Probably Racist [ 11 ] replying in kind within the music video "We're All Asian", sarcastically thanking Idle for his opinion, before mockingly stating that "he [Idle] was probably gay with AIDS ".
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The gunman convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man in Georgia, repeatedly used racist language in text messages with friends, and also shared a music video of a white supremacist singer ...
Baugh (1991) found that when people were asked why the term African-American should or should not be used, many respondents prefaced their answers with "I'm not racist, but...". [10] Brown (2006) found that the phrase was often used by Lancastrian interviewees who were concerned about the influx of racial minorities. [11]
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