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Racism is racism.
You find hip hop culture aesthetically displeasing, and see it as antisocial. Therefore, you impute negativity to black society, and imply that it negatively affects non-black society. I don't personally see much difference in those conclusions that in someone deciding that black people's physical features are aesthetically displeasing, and those that person has encountered have been lacking in formal, Western, modern education; and therefore deciding that all black people are inferior, unintelligent, and unlovely.
I think the "covers" for "polite" racism have changed since the 1950s, but the creature itself, beneath its sugar coating, remains the same. Intolerance, fear of the other, judgment of the other without regard to context or situation, and a willingness to pass the buck when it comes to responsibility for the troubles of the other.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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