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Rap disrespect of black icons raises concerns
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| March 2, 2014
| JESSE WASHINGTON
Posted on 03/02/2014 9:43:21 AM PST by artichokegrower
Malcolm X and rap music have always fit together like a needle in the groove, connected by struggle, strength and defiance. But three recent episodes involving the use or misuse of Malcolm and other black icons have raised the question: Has rap lost touch with black history?
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"I don't want to say today's rappers are not educated about black history, but they don't seem as aware as rap generations before them,"
Using the term rapper and educated in the same sentence should bring out the oxymoron police
To: artichokegrower
Hoist on their own petard.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:44:53 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: artichokegrower
It would appear that entropy is colorblind.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:47:31 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: artichokegrower
connected by struggle, strength and defiance.
Puh-leeze......
Has rap lost touch with black history?
It never was. It's crap.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:48:21 AM PST
by
98ZJ USMC
To: artichokegrower
Malcom X would probably smack these idiots across the face these days starting with Louis Farrakhan.
He was never going to be a tea partier but he was wandering off the plantation and posed a real threat to the black nationalist/muslim movement.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:50:02 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: artichokegrower
There were once rappers that actually just made fun music. Politics, thuggery, and irresponsibility apparently made for "better" content.
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:51:09 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of malcontents.
Talk about the hos, the niggas, the shooting up of the neighborhoods, the drug culture, the destrucion of generations of black yutes, and it’s swell.
Start talking down about former anti-government radicals, and boy, did you ever step in it.
IDIOTS, one and all...
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:56:20 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:57:10 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: artichokegrower
The truth is....... white people are colored as well..
and african americans are almost never from africa..
Rap music is not music it’s humans acting like chimps..
Barry is as white as he is black and his mother WAS a bitch..
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posted on
03/02/2014 9:58:52 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: artichokegrower
I love most forms of music, but rap is not musical at all. The motown sounds of the 50’s - 70’s were great.
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:08:01 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
To: artichokegrower
Wonder if all hell will break loose if one of these rappers uses the N word with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in their lyrics?
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:08:10 AM PST
by
dowcaet
To: artichokegrower
Malcolm ex an icon? That’s weird. Unless you consider wanting to overthrow the US iconic.
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:08:41 AM PST
by
rktman
(Under my plan(scheme),unemployment will necessarily skyrocket! Despite the % dropping. Period.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
What’s up, Fab Five Diana?
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I want to go back in time and date her.
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:28:01 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:28:32 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: artichokegrower
"Has rap lost touch with black history? "
None of them knew any history to begin with.
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:29:04 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: VanDeKoik
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03/02/2014 10:31:08 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:34:12 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: rabidralph
Hey, Ralph. All is well in my little world. Hope yours is, too! Sick of winter, yet? Big thaw coming in a week, down here! Yippee! :)
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:35:28 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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posted on
03/02/2014 10:47:40 AM PST
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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