Are black kids burning CD's?

In My Humble Opinion
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In my spare time I occasionally help people with PC problems and I have noticed a difference between the black and white families I have visited in that almost no black teenagers are burning CDs off downloaded MP3’s, even if they have the hardware and connection to do so, but almost all the white teenagers are.

My sample set is rather small (3 black families and 9 white) so I have no idea if this relfects the populaiton at large. In doper’s experience is there a real difference in this behavior or did I just see an un-representative set of families?

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How much ‘black’ music is there on Grokster/etc…?
Maybe there is less of it, so you might be less likely to see ripped mp3 cds in black households. You may still find it though.

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Being nerdy enuf to know how to download MP3s and burn them on CDs aint cool. Black kids are cool not nerds. :stuck_out_tongue:

now asian kids, daaaaaaaaiimmmmm…

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I am sure there are black nerds.

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I have also noticed this phnomenon, and don’t have any good explanation for it.

However, I can assure you, all the programs I (a white teenager) use to burn CDs have plenty of rap, R&B, and other “black” music.

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I meant, of course, programs I use to download music. Sorry!

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I can assure you that rap, hip-hop, R&B, etc. mp3’s are just as out as any other form of music. Hell, that’s all I download… er… I mean that’s all my friend downloads.

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Yeah, amp’s right. There’s tons of hip-hop and other black-oriented music out there on Kazaa and suchlike.

At least that’s what my friends tell me…

I think it’s spurious. My guess is that if you had a decent sample size it would be about the same (given “has the technical requirements”).

I do suspect that fewer black kids DL MP3’s and burn CDs overall – only because economic factors would tend to lead to less of them having the basic requirements (computer, cd-burner, and broadband – the last technically optional, but not really)

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Maybe thats why hip-hop and rap CD’s sell so well, all the white kids aren’t buying music.

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Most of the black people I know, at least those who I was talking to when the subject came up, burn CDs from MP3’s from file-sharing services.

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They burn CDs, they just don’t tell anyone. Years of oppression have taught them a healthy respect for ‘the man’. Soon all you white boys will be in jail for copyright infringement while they are sitting pretty on top of their pile of burned CDs. :wink:

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I’m black and 75% of my music comes from MP3’s.

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A coworker (black male) is THE MAN for burning CDs from MP3s. He is shameless. He has hundreds of CDs from downloaded MP3s. He’s the source for music for the whole workplace—he’s always burning a CD for someone. He once burned me a CD of downloaded MP3s of Jerry Goldsmith’s “The Illustrated Man” because I couldn’t find my own CD.

And no, he’s not rich. He lives in a seedy part of town. But his musical tastes are so diverse; I don’t think he listens to rap or hip-hop.

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Of course black kids don’t burn CD’s, they listen to them. Duh.

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Many of my black friends burn cd’s and/or know more about computers then me. So in response to your question, yes they do.

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There are black nerds. I am proof positive of that.

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I thought this was going to be a thread about Nation of Islam or Baptist kids burning unwholesome music in big piles or something. Imagine my relief.

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Can you think of any besides Urkel? :slight_smile:

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I am the blackest…nerd…ever… MUAHAHAHAHA