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Originally Posted by Shauk
I'm done with this thread.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm tired of feeling like the subject of personal attacks against my intelligence, insinuations of ignorance to the history of the subject matter I present, among other posts.
Crossed the line in my opinion.
Everyone is quick to jump the gun because I used the words "hip hop" in my question apparently.
The Hip-Hop Generation's Own Black History | | AlterNet an article on the divergence of black culture in to the hip hop culture
Hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a wiki entry that, wow, I didn't write, that says
Don't be so dense.
Again though, i'm just going to bow out of this thread and leave it to the dogs to shred apart like some bad meat because the fact that I even acknowledged this tangent, and the fact that the only "on topic" response thus far was by Squeeb, i'm pretty sure this conversation is doomed to completely ignore the original question at hand for people to leap to the defense of hip hop, for whatever reason. This thread wasn't some cleverly veiled attempt to launch a crusade against hip hop in the defense of protecting the black American image, hell, they already have groups doing that, I listen to some of it here and there. I don't get why people are so hung up on it. Just because I said i'm not a fan of the negatives doesn't mean I can't recognize positives. You must really take me for a troglodyte if that's the case.
ugh, nevermind, done. |
Holy crap, you say that contemporary racism is based on "truthful" representations of black culture based on hip hop and yet you want to claim to be the victim here?
The reason people are "crossing the line" is because your original post is based on false premises which conveniently underscore contemporary racism, and you post in all caps that those premises are TRUTHFUL. Just to make the problems explicit: there is the assumption that how gangsta hip hop is portrayed by the general media is accurate, that gangsta hip hop is representative of hip hop in general, and that hip hop in general is representative of "black culture." If you can't see the problem here, and how this is used precisely to foster racism, I don't know what else to say.