Urban-centric? Who said that? No one I guess.
This is the closest I can come to finding material in the article that supports the use of that term:
GOP legislative leaders have criticized Evers’ slate for being primarily from the state’s two biggest metro areas, Milwaukee and Madison. Of Evers’ 13 department secretaries, nine are from Dane or Milwaukee counties."Urban-centric" (especially next to "diversity" in that headline) sounds racial. I think of the term "urban music" — as in "Why Do We Still Call R&B/Hip-Hop 'Urban' — And Is It Time for a Change?" (Billboard).
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said in a statement that “Madison and Milwaukee may have elected the new governor, but Gov.-elect Evers has to be governor of all of Wisconsin. With his cabinet primarily selected from the Madison and Milwaukee areas, it’s concerning that he seems to be already ignoring the rest of the state,” Vos said....
Six of Evers’ Cabinet picks so far are women and three are people of color — four if you add his choice to succeed him as state superintendent, Carolyn Stanford Taylor. That compares to [Scott] Walker’s first-term Cabinet picks, of whom three were women and two were people of color.
Has the time come to retire “urban”? As an umbrella term for hip-hop and R&B, it’s either convenient and apt or an antiquated shorthand for music made by black artists. And as a department at many labels dating back to the 1970s, it has arguably marginalized black musicians and those who work with them.
As conversations about race and gender have intensified culturewide, “urban” is getting reassessed too. In early August, Music Business Worldwide reported that several black executives wanted to see the term eliminated. Sources at Warner/Chappell confirm to Billboard that outgoing CEO Jon Platt, who is exiting his post to head Sony/ATV, is among those who want to do away with the term.
Most objections are to the word itself. “The connotation of the word doesn't hold a positive weight,” explains Sam Taylor, senior vp creative at Kobalt Music Group, the rights management and publishing company. “It’s downgrading R&B, soul and hip-hop’s incredible impact on music. And as black executives, we have the power to phase ‘urban’ out -- to change the description.”
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It appears the Republicans haven’t found a way of stripping Evers of the power to pick his own cabinet. Maybe they’re feeling a bit threatened, so they’re trying to poison the well.
I know for a fact that white men live in Madison and Milwaukee.
I know a white kid from South Africa who attended primarily white Omaha Westside high school. He was nominated as African-American student of the year. Big controversy!
“It appears the Republicans haven’t found a way of stripping Evers of the power”
Is complaining “stripping power”?
“Is complaining “stripping power”?”
No, it’s poisoning the well. I did not say it was stripping the Governor’s power, as they have done in other areas.
“Others”
Rumsfeld might say: “You don’t go into to elections with the opposition you have, you use the media to create the opposition you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Evers forgot to thank Satan.
Dre worries that this is the only reason he was promoted at the ad agency he works at, especially since he's the new head of the "Urban Division".
Dre (internal monologue): Did they just put me in charge of "black stuff"?
Will whoever it is please stop blowing that dog whistle that AA keeps hearing.
Yet, this is the same debate we are having nation wide. For example, the Dems from San Francisco and LA trying to impose a massive AGW/AGCC fuel tax on the rest of the state. They can take mass transit or walk to their destinations, while the rest of the state actually has to drive to work, to shop, etc, and in the rural areas, in the 3rd largest state in the country, that can be a decent distance. All so that the urbanites can virtue signal about something that, if it were a problem, the tax increase would have no real effect, and probably isn’t a problem in the first place. That is urban centric. Also urban centric is the Dems attempt to eliminating Nate the Electoral College, and allocating tw Senators perbstate. The Dems problem nationwide is that they are an urban centric party, and that is at odds with a large m8nority, if not majority in this country. But that really hasn’t changed that much since at least the Civil War, when they were the urban party in the North.
More and more there are voting blocs , ones centered in the 'cities' , that drag the rest of the state to the left , typically the Far Left . NY and Illinois come quickly to mind. Suffice it to say that if 'vote harvesting ' becomes more wide spread , this will get more worser. Whether 'urban centric' is the best label , I don't know , but the notion is one which needs greater attention
In some contexts, "urban" does have a racial connotation. (not necessarily racist however)
But there is also a civil war going on in this country between the urban centers and the rural countryside. Has been ever since Reynolds V Sims.
"journalism is so bad these days, I feel like quitting reading it altogether"
Please, no. "Journalism is so bad these days!" is becoming the equivalent of the old "I can't believe" mad prog such-and-such would commit a mad prog abomination.
I appreciate the old-timey sentiment and all, but "journalism" and "the press" are weapons in a war. You may not like the war but it likes you--it likes you enough to pound the message good and hard, sensitivities be damned.
In your own way, you are fighting back a bit, which I also appreciate, but we could do without the pointless lamentations.
Now if he picked a bunch of University of Illinois graduates, you could call it urbana-centric.
Bruce Hayden said...
...Nate the Electoral College...
Wow! I didn't know the Electoral College had a first name!
Less than 7% of Wisconsin's population is black. Yet four of the 13 cabinet members are black. Considering the extreme over representation of blacks compared to population the black population of WI must be exceptionally talented.
Urban as a term for black is so last century. Today "urban" is all about the hipster lifestyle. Bike lanes, breweries and coffee houses.
Henry,
He could balance them with some Normals from Illinois State.
Cole Porter's musical style was Urbane.
I am Laslo.
Diversity politics: color, sex, and gender, too. We'll always have the dictionary.
The urban distinction seems to refer to high-density population centers.
If 'urban' is no longer an appropriate term, then what do we now call 'country' music?
I am Laslo.
If 'urban' is no longer an appropriate term, then what do we now call 'country' music?
Deplorable tunes.
I think "urban-centric" would have been considered racially coded twenty or thirty years ago, but urban increasingly means rich whites and Asians, with urban blacks moving to the poorer suburbs.
the real risk is urbane-centric government.
Evers is gentrifying the government.
Maybe they are all fans of Keith Urban.
Stupid me, I tought Urban meant Not Country. I've been looking for a streaming category that includes Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis but excludes Eartha Kitt.
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