Shauk

This might be a controversial topic and I'm probably risking tainting myself as a closet racist or something, but to be up front, I'm not, I really just hate the negative aspect of hip hop culture, the violence, ignorance, slang, willful deviation from the norm for the sake of being a rebel, including the choice of ignorance over education.

Racism seems to be a pretty broad term to describe prejudiced behavior towards a person based on a common attribute.


But I was thinking about it and lets take racism of the 50's vs modern racism. I can't even begin to think of how they compare. I just don't think they can.

It seemed like black individuals in the 50's were simply viewed upon as "the help" simply because they were viewed as inferior, impure, not the true race, etc...

Racism today seems to focus on some real TRUTHFUL negatives of the black culture that makes it in to the mainstream today, hip hop, gang banging, rampant drug use, the willful embrace of a violent dead end culture that revolves around hate and purposeful bastardization of acceptable norms.

I think a person in the 50's looked at blacks as simple mules, or housepets, we white folk of that era "feared" that which we did not understand.

today, i think it's different, I think a lot of people "understand" the negative aspects of black culture.


My question is, is racism today as prejudiced as it was in the 50's now that, given the free leash of american citizenship and exposure in the media, we've seen the result of the popular culture of black America? The picture they've drawn for us to observe. I don't even dare say Black youth, and I know they don't represent all black americans, but some of the forefront hiphop artists are 40+ y/o adults and still embrace this culture as if it's some sacred representation that they must continue to perpetuate, with no drive to improve the image they've created.