Rob's Soapbox - Why Does Everything Have To Be About Race?

<p>Every single time race is injected into a conversation, some moron…usually a middle-aged white man…shouts out “why does everything have to be about race?”</p><p>For example, last week the reggae band Soja won the Grammy for best reggae album and social media exploded because everyone in the band is white! a Jamaican woman on Twitter said “<em>spice losing the Grammy to soja has proven that we Jamaicans &amp; our entertainment sector has work to do…the Grammy’s, along with these cultural vultures, are way too presumptuous, our culture is being disrespected &amp; blatantly robbed</em>.”</p><p>A Jamaican man wrote: “<em>A white American group #soja won a Grammy for best reggae album wtf Talk about culture appropriation”</em></p><p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/04/04/soja-grammys-awards-reggae-category-sparks-backlash/9464001002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/04/04/soja-grammys-awards-reggae-category-sparks-backlash/9464001002/</a></p><p>We tried to talk about it on the show and discuss whether or not there was a legitimate point of view for people from a specific part of the world feeling as though their cultural contribution was being hijacked and it wasn’t long before the emails came rolling in with the same tired, lazy, ignorant trope: Why does everything have to be about race?</p><p>Our newest Supreme Court Justice is Ketanji Brown Jackson, a black woman, who was chosen after President Biden had already announced that he would appoint a black woman to the court, garnering cries near and far of “Why does everything have to be about race?”</p><p>The problem with questions, no matter how rhetorical they’re meant to be, is that there’s always an answer…and usually one that most people don’t want to hear, entertain, or understand.</p><p>To be candid, I hate that President Biden announced over a year ago that he would choose a black woman to be the next Supreme Court Justice because I, personally, find i