links for 2007-05-30

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  1. merq wrote:

    RE: Hip-Hop Article

    TooSense did a fantastic job breaking this mess of an article down.

    http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/05/here-we-go-again.html

  2. eric daniels wrote:

    I was reading the article in the Washington Post
    and it never seems to amaze me that outsiders equate a musical genre with Black Culture. I think this a revenge piece based on Imus so now black culture will critqued as street or pathological, Black People can never win in the eyes of the majority society.

    This argument Williams makes can be flipped to white culture’s addiction to Heavy Metal culture with it’s emphasis on Satan , violence
    and sexism and it’s actions like Columbine
    and other school shootings where those white
    males were inspired to shoot other people and let’s not forget video games in this argument.

    Williams and other white commentators and their black defenders are playing with fire with this assertion that middle- class blacks and
    by extension Black Culture is troubled Because
    Kool Herc set up a sound system in the South Bronx. African- Americans don’t have to embrace a European value system to be American.

  3. Myra wrote:

    While you won’t find me defending hip-hop…hate alot of it…this article is a mess, and Merq is right. Why is the Washington Post reaching out to this person to pen this? Please check his lightweight bio. Newspaper editors love inflammatory comments and not a rationale breakdown of real concerns in the African-American community. Yes, misogynist lyrics are awful. The imagery in the videos are appaling. But, hip hop is a symptom, and not the problem. The problematic issues in the black community are deeper than mere hip hop, and I hate the idea (from someone I assume is a black person) that hip hop represents my culture. UGH! Let’s talk wage stagnation and educational apartheid. And, yes, we do need to look within, as well.