(I missed a "g" on the post's title. ::sigh:
Quote:
Spike Lee lashes out at gangsta image
Associated Press
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Filmmaker Spike Lee. (AP File/Jim Cooper)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Spike Lee says the value of education is being overshadowed by the images that gangsta rap glorifies.
"Young black kids didn't grow up wanting to be a pimp or a stripper like they do now," Lee said of his youth in Brooklyn.
He drew two standing ovations as a featured speaker at a conference on cultural diversity at Middle Tennessee State University.
The 48-year-old filmmaker, who is working on a documentary on Hurricane Katrina, urged students to find a way to make being educated cool again.
"Back then, we were not called sellouts for using our brains. And being intelligent was not frowned upon," Lee said.
He likened the images from some rap videos to the distorted view minstrel shows of the 19th century gave most of the world about American blacks.
Lee said he has tried through his films, which include School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever and Malcolm X, to show the diversity of the black experience.
© The Associated Press 2005
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I can't say how much I am interested in seeing the reactions to Spike. Will he suffer the same outcry as Bill Cosby did when he spoke out against what most would consider the same topic, the same types of behavior?
It will be very interesting to watch what Black America says in response. Then again, maybe it won't.
Mr. Lee said the gangsa image is bad.
Who's going to get up on a soapbox and scream that women hating, drug using, violence endorsing, wanton consumption, perversion preaching, rappers *are* the ideal for Black youth (well, youth of any color, really).
Then again, every time I post somthing about how negative rap is, and I've done so, in the long ago past,
(this being the biggest one) at great length, people pop out of the woodwork to call me names; and, talk about how great rap is, and how my views of it are twisted, limited, and more than slightly racist.
Never mind though, that's jsut me being bitchy about my experiances.
What do you think of Spike's words here?
New news?
It's been said before?
It's bunk?
Cosby said it better?
What?