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Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:00 am
Jay-Z, I hate him. I may even hate him more than Kanye West. I think his music is over rated and infantile. But I have to defend him on this, even if it is racist of him.
The man hosted a private party. He has the right to include or exclude anyone he wanted. So, everyone's getting all up in arms about racism at a private party while it's ok for a Texas restaurant to refuse LGBT people because they "hate fags". That's ok though. It's their "religious freedom" to hate people publicly but if a black man hosts a private party for blacks only that's just not tolerable.
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:19 am
I agree with you No-God, it's a private party so he can invite who he wants. I wouldn't want to go anyway he probably wouldn't let me dance with his missus... about the other thing, how would the Texas restaurant know what sexuality somebody was anyway? Do they ask them at the door? Weird....
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:20 am
(May 30, 2014 at 11:19 am)vodkafan Wrote: I agree with you No-God, it's a private party so he can invite who he wants. I wouldn't want to go anyway he probably wouldn't let me dance with his missus... about the other thing, how would the Texas restaurant know what sexuality somebody was anyway? Do they ask them at the door? Weird....
Ditto. There's an important difference between private and public facilities.
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:23 am
look at the bright side, white people could still go if they get a tan.......a really good tan 
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:30 am
(May 30, 2014 at 11:23 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: look at the bright side, white people could still go if they get a tan.......a really good tan
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:36 am
It's ok NG I'm black and wouldnt let me in either. His crowd don't like "uppity Oreo cookies".
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:39 am
I've never had a good opinion of Jay-Z, so I'm not surprised at all.
Just call them out and move on. No sense in being angry about that fool.
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 12:08 pm by SteelCurtain.)
I'm in the minority. I love Jay-Z's music, but think this was dumb. I support his right to host a party and invite who he wants, but I also think he's a moron for hosting a "blacks only" party. Did he actually make it clear that it was a "blacks only" party, or did he just invite a bunch of black people to a party, and somebody called it a blacks only party?
Edit to add: This was back in 2010 (which I think matters because this would never have been brought up except it is being used as a 'response' to the Sterling thing), and this was not advertised as a "blacks only" party. Some white people were turned away by the bouncers, which is certainly not cool, and certainly could have come from Jay-Z, but it could have come from somewhere else. The article heavily links to Debbie Schlussel, an anti-Islamic, hyper-conservative blogger who is somehow defending? Sterling, or at the very least condemning the NBA for not condemning Jay-Z's history as a drug dealer from Bed-Stuy.
While I think Jay-Z's actions are not always defensible, and I don't think you fight fire with fire---as a person who has experienced racism in the south, and a person who has experienced atheist hatred and bigotry, I understand having a party where you shield yourself from that. I think there is a difference between saying "this party is for black people," and "don't bring black people to my public arena." In the same light that I wouldn't object to a church saying "no atheists allowed," or someone having a party for atheists only, this, to me, stinks of digging, reaching, and hyperbolising a story.
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 11:56 am
My impression is the bouncers were instructed not to let any whites in.
Here's the question: do we give this private party by a team owner a pass, and not give a private conversation by another team owner a pass?
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RE: Jay-Z hosts a "blacks only" party and everyone is going ape shit.
May 30, 2014 at 12:08 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 12:09 pm by Napoléon.)
I'm all for him having his right to host a 'blacks only' party, but people shouldn't be sitting around saying it's perfectly acceptable. It's fucking stupid and it should be called out for what it is.
Also I fully agree with the article, there's a definite double standard.
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