[artichokegrower]

"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

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hoist on their own petard.

[Steely Tom]

It would appear that entropy is colorblind.

[98ZJ USMC]

connected by struggle, strength and defiance.

Puh-leeze......

Has rap lost touch with black history?

It never was. It's crap.

[cripplecreek]

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.

[VanDeKoik]

There were once rappers that actually just made fun music. Politics, thuggery, and irresponsibility apparently made for "better" content.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Best Performance Ever By A White Chick Rappin’ Goes To:

Debbie Harry of ‘Blondie’ (’Rapture’) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

[hosepipe]

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..

[dainbramaged]

I love most forms of music, but rap is not musical at all. The motown sounds of the 50’s - 70’s were great.

[dowcaet]

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?

[rktman]

Malcolm ex an icon? That’s weird. Unless you consider wanting to overthrow the US iconic.

[Mariner]

"Has rap lost touch with black history? "

None of them knew any history to begin with.

[subterfuge]

Rap was invented for blacks that can’t sing and whites that can’t dance.

[GOPJ]

There’s more to black history than the rage of the sixties...

[LouAvul]

Yet another question: "Does anyone really care?"

Sorry, but I could care less anymore re "blacks", "the black experience", or anything else related to this entirely boring subculture.

[a fool in paradise]

"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," said Jermaine Hall, editor-in-chief of Vibe, the hip-hop magazine and website.

While previous generations had to struggle with the racism and neglect of the 1970s or the crack epidemic of the 1980s, Hall said, today's young people have not faced the same type of racial struggle — "They're sort of getting further and further away from the civil rights movement."

"In the '80s, whether it was KRS-One, Public Enemy, or the Native Tongues, that entire movement, it was very in tune with black history," Hall said. "They knew everything about Malcolm, about Martin, about Rosa Parks. Now, the new rappers just aren't as in tune."

And yet the race baiters keep up their game even without the "racial struggle".

[a fool in paradise]

Will she be given a 15 yard penalty?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Um, are all Americans educated about American history? Shame.

[spodefly]

I have been saying for years that we need more erudite, eloquent, educated, historically-aware rappers ...

[Bon of Babble]

What a laugh!!

First of all it's NOT music, it's not history and it's degenerate.

[sargon]

Malcom X is not "black history"...