Excellent article...I agree with him that there needs to be more made of the lyrical content of hip-hop/rap music. I hear this junk blaring in locker rooms and the content in many would make a sailor blush. If nothing else, the glorification of drugs, violence and the degradation of women should make parents concerned.

Great article. Imus made a stupid comment, he apologized, get over it. Go fight a real fight.

 

 

That may very well be the reason they fought this one, lack of available fights.

I think Imus deserved what he got but at the same time the music industry, television, movies are part of the problem.

 

Why is it when Whitlock says this....

 

It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

 

 

he gets a lot of agreement. But when I brought up similar things that were not, let's say a racial issue, in South Park, I was panned for those ideas.

 

Is it easier to say that is the problem when you are not that race and looking to tell another race what their problem is but when you look in the mirror, it is not South Park's fault but the parents.

 

Not trying to stir the pot but a cultural observation and honest question.

 

If you are planning some emotional racists reply, don't. Looking for a serious discussion of "do we hold other races to higher standards and like to point out problems in their world rather than to see the problems growing in ours."

 

I don't see issues with hip-hop culture as being only a black problem. I work in an almost entirely white high school and that is about all the kids listen to. The attitudes that the music encourages are bad for society all the way around, not just bad for black society.

This is truly one of the best articles I have read anywhere, on any subject that nails their point right on the money. I would like to see ANYTIME that ANYONE claims this or that is being done to any race, that someone will shove this article in their face.

 

I don't like the idea that Imus was fired, and I don't even listen to him, maybe just for a few seconds as I am surfing the cable channels. I don't like three idea he was fired because he was using the same words that many blacks use and say about themselves. I don't buy into that garbage that it is okay for a group of people to use certain slurs because they are of that group they slurred. If it's not okay for one person or group to say it, it's not okay for anyone to say it.

 

IMO people like Sharpton and Jackson are no good blow hards that are among a few, that are actually dividing the races even further apart. I agree that these two should never be spoken in the same sentence and MLK!

The attitudes that the music encourages are bad for society all the way around, not just bad for black society.

I agree 100%! But the black community seems to take the effects of the music full force.

 

A little off topic, but for example, the little riots in Cincinnati about 6 years ago wasn't about race, it was about economics in a certain area of town. I didn't see black people all over Cincinnati up in arms, just basically a few 100 in one area, mostly if not all young people too. But that is another topic.

Whitlocks first good article...about time