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Originally Posted by Shauk
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
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Oh. I didn't think I was that off topic... Maybe I was. I think some of the forms are the same ('if a black person touches me, i'll turn black' and 'black people bleed green') because of the media, 'knowledge,' and the end of segregation, there are new forms, thanks to media. However, I was not alive in the 50s, so I don't really know what type of changes there have been. Now a black man can ride the elevator, but some white women will grab her purse.
In my experience if you call someone something long enough they will begin to believe it. The violence found in some music, I think, is representation of that. People see the same thing everyday, on TV, on the radio, and in the newspaper, telling them this is how black people act, talk, and behave. Some people have taken that to heart. This easier to do when you live in the lower class (bad schools, teachers who don't care, etc), and that's where a number of black people live.
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One girl talks about the epidemic of crime that she sees in urban black and Latino communities, relating it directly to the hip hop industry saying “When they can’t afford these kind of things, these things that celebrities have like jewelry and clothes and all that, they’ll go and sell drugs, some people will steal it…”[31] Many students see this as a negative side effect of the hip hop industry, and indeed, hip hop has been widely criticized for inciting notions of crime, violence, and American ideals of consumerism.
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This sounds as empty as they people saying that the video games Grand Theft Auto and the like as causing kids to be more dangerous. I grew up listening to gansta rap, hip hop, and r&b. I believe that people who DO what they hear in music weren't 'trained right' by their parents.