RapRehab on HOT 97 NYC this Sunday on ‘Thug Music’
THE ISSUE WE’RE DEBATING IS WHETHER THE VIOLENT IMAGES AND LYRICS IN SOME HIP HOP CONTRIBUTE TO NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF YOUNG BLACK MEN?
THE ISSUE WE’RE DEBATING IS WHETHER THE VIOLENT IMAGES AND LYRICS IN SOME HIP HOP CONTRIBUTE TO NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF YOUNG BLACK MEN?
When it really counts, and people really need to stand up against injustice, instead of ACTING, they take to social media and merely vent. They get all there emotions out on social media sites. They make cool, witty hashtags that start to trend. They express their anger. Then they forget.
The adjective ‘sick’ is barely enough to describe my emotions as images of wailing mothers, like those of slain youth Trayvon and Jordan, grasp each other’s weak arms – both aching in pain of losing a child to senseless murder.
This case isn’t about loud “thug” music, a closet racist’s PC way of replacing the N word. It’s about white people’s pathological fear of Black males, a reality CNN, Fox, and company wouldn’t discuss in a million years.
First it was Reverend Sharpton and MSNBC and this time the factual culprit is cable network HLN and the inaccurate “headline” concerning the trial of State of Florida v. Michael Dunn suggesting that “Stand Your Ground” has something to do with the trial State of Florida v. Michael Dunn.