imma white pussy that takes issue with this statement. i say with great consternation that fritz woulda laughed at the thought of a ‘rapper’ being an ubermensch, but on the other hand would understand exactly why a modern from the western world would exhalt such mediocre baffoonery as it rose up from the plebian soil from which it came and infected the hearts and minds of the consumer masses. because this:
… is over exaggerated, sentimental nonsense that is precisely the kind of shit that makes a romantic myth out of something much more mundane than it has been made to appear through/with the artistic cultural narrative of ‘hip-hop’ music. firstly, the whole theater of the ‘civil rights’ movement in america is more of an epic comedy than a heroic tale. in general what you have is a series of historical stupidities that have resolved through the only solution possible for a cluster fuck on such a grand scale. first, our protagonist, the white man, brings africans over to be made into slaves for their budding new capitalist economy. next, a majority of angered citizens (of the working classes) begin to sympathize with the slaves… and the capitalists can’t deter this anger for long before they have to pretend to want to participate in a social revolution that would abolish slavery because it’s ‘the ethical thing to do.’ enter social reform and the civil war. and this pisses the white capitalists off because now they have to pay a wage in exchange for the neegrows labor, whereas before it was taken for free. ah but there’s still profit to be made, so it’s not a complete failure. then comes the civil rights movement. now the working class wage earning neegrows want more rights. understandable. but make no mistake; nothing they did by force got them their revolution. rather, again, social unrest forces bourgeois goverment to appease the masses and reform social policy to prevent more violent revolution on a larger scale. it was either give the neegrows the right to vote and use the same water fountains, or risk a total overthrow of government… in which case capitalism might have suffered a fatal blow. so nothing these africans did, directly, got them their rights. every bit of it was given to them by a master than only did so to save his own ass from more dire consequences had he not done so. and that, my friends, is the comedy of the history of the american civil rights movement from the moment they stepped off the boat to the moment they entered the studio and began producing rap music. these people are simply bystanders that have graciously accepted what has been given to them, and aside from shooting a few cops in the ghetto, their story hardly resembles anything heroic.
ah but the story must be made heroic or else it can’t be sold. and here again we find the cunning capitalist dip his dirty little fingers into the pot and turn a disadvantage into something he can benefit from.
and for bonus points you can call this stupid joke of a history something ‘nietzschean’, and somebody will be there to buy that, too.