Rant

What is it to be indie?? Or better yet what is it to be black????
Do you have the answer… think about it… now that you’ve got that image in your head why it is that everyone thinks everything that is indie is not black…
Why is it that when I’m on the subway listening to “I Want to be a Minority”, people think that I’m the “American Idiot”.
Why can’t I have a “Panic at the Disco!” And Listen to “Fall Out Boy”… am I an “All American reject”. Why is it when I rock out to “When Love Takes Over” people tell me to “Chase Pavements”…
I am not black because I listen to more than just hip hop and R&B.
Black people invented rock music… pop music is a direct descendent of our own culture…
Why does it matter?…
do you think I’m white washed… blinded by the white lights that is America

Should I be thinking about “If I Ruled the World” or seeing if my heart is still in Zion. I know about “Bonita Applebum” and all that “Flava in Your Ear”. Should I be worried about “not guilty, he who does not feel me is not real to me therefore he doesn’t exist… so poof…vamoose son of a”- so of a wait a minute… I thought indie was short for independent.
Independent of color, race, creed, orientation, style…

And on that last note, about style just because I don’t wear clothes from American apparel mostly because they wouldn’t know a XXL if it bit them does not mean I’m not indie. I can still rock the chucks can’t I??

Anyway back to my main point the definition of independent is as follows: not subject to control by others; not affiliated with a larger controlling unit.
People what does that mean!!
Indie is not black… Indie is not white… Indie is you and me… independent of each other and independent of what the world thinks.
What is Indie… I think I’ll let you