Fucking fabulous! I read this not realizing you were the author.

What is very funny about this is that songs like Under My Thumb and Stupid Girls by the Rolling Stones, or Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines,are as misogynistic as any rap found on the Billboard 100. Yet when these songs are criticized, it is on the basis of the artists personally being bad people, as opposed to broadly brushing an entire genre – like hip-hop – as being sexist.

You said what I have been unable to put into words. Expanding this point to explore the larger truth is great. There are expectations of people based on their race and they are treated differently. As much as we would like to chose to say "racism is in the past", we shouldn't until we stop having expectations of how individuals should act based on their race (or gender, or any superficial trait). I despise when someone accomplishes something notable but somehow their accomplishments are only presented as notable because of their traits.

While ignoring the issues may be better than being willfully, violently, or purposefully hateful, we cannot fully overcome any problems by ignoring them. We've made huge strides in overcoming racism. Some of that is due to making things legally unacceptable, socially unacceptable, and then ignoring it and being willfully blind. We shouldn't negate the progress we've made since the years of slavery and violence. Rather, we should choose to look at the issues today and approach these issues in terms of where we are currently. Sometimes I think people focus too much on the differences between today and 100 years ago instead of looking at today and 10 years ago; just because we're better than we were 100 year ago, doesn't mean we can't be better than we are today.