Okay, for once I have found a topic of interest that has to do with race and gender! Now let me start by clarifying that this blog will be a little biased. I am a hard core fan of P. Diddy's latest manufactured girl group Danity Kane. What I love about them, besides the fact that they make awesome music (bias alert!) is that there are three white members and two black members. Now I know this fact is not really a strange phenomenon but I love how it's not a big deal. That sounds weird I know but it's true. Diddy is pretty open minded when it comes to picking his group members for MTV's Making the Band series but that is another blog altogether. I'm not amazed at the whole girl group phenomenon, especially sucessful black female groups because that's old news... we're talking The Supremes all the way down to Destiny's Child. Usually these groups that are sucessful are always given their praises but there's always the underlying, "Oh, not only are they great but they happen to be black too." I'm a little tired of that especially since its 2008. That's why I like Danity Kane and the Making the Band series for putting talented black young musicians in with everybody else without making a huge deal about it. I think its a step in the right direction.
Update: Since this post Danity Kane has disbanded
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