Posted on 10/17/2014 7:48:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ST. LOUIS, Missouri — If the protests in Ferguson and St. Louis in recent months have an anthem, it isn’t “We Shall Overcome,” or “Wade in the Water,” or any other civil rights-era song. It’s a darker, more confrontational song – Lil Boosie’s “F*** the Police.”
When the chorus of Lil Boosie’s song wasn’t blaring on a giant sound system carted through the crowd at night, it showed up in chants or printed on posters. As night fell, the protests morphed into a party, with demonstrators dancing out on the street and on top of cars.
With few ways for protesters to channel vivid anger and pent up frustration over a system they feel works against them at every level, hip-hop has become an outlet for the young people who reject the old ways of the civil rights movement that they say does not speak to them. Instead, the artists and rappers on the ground every night used their networks to connect with the countless other Fergusons around the country that are struggling to overcome racial and economic tensions.
Young protesters weren’t looking to their elders for help coping with their pain after unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9. Instead, a generational gap emerged almost immediately after police stormed in to disperse protests and the first canisters of tear gas dropped....
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Young protesters weren’t looking to their elders for help …Funny how MSDNC seems to almost celebrate that fact. Destroy the family first, and now watch society start to disintegrate.
So, is singing about ***ng the Police, somehow supposed to make the rest of us feel their pain, acknowledge their feelings, acknowledge that they have a point, that racism is pervasive and all that???? Really???? By singing ****ck the police?????
Why is rap so obscene anyway?????
How ‘bout someone wrote a tune entitled, “F*** the thugs and the race-baiters” ?
Catchy title, has a good beat, easy to dance to...yeah, we really like it Mr. Clark.
well that would be racist.
The rule is, members of officially recognized grievance groups are allowed to say and do whatever the hell they want, and the rest of us aren’t supposed to say anything, or be charged with bigotry.
On the other hand, if people who are not in a grievance group say and do the exact same thing, such people will draw scorn and criticism.
Time for a revolution.
Here is a lil rap for my people.
Michael Brown done stole some stuff.
The heat stopped him so he got ruff.
He crushed his face and tried to get his gun
Then the cop he had some fun.
The cop is ok.
Brown ,he is gone away.
Big bad mikie is all gone
And that is the end of this here song.
I’d like a ham sandwhich, chips and a coke.
All political show. As the info drips out, Officer Wilson was in the right and Michael Brown, like Thugvon Martin, was a bigot thinking he was gonna get the white boy
Instead they got theirs. Good riddance.
“Why is rap so obscene anyway?????”
Cuz dey be keepin it realz, yo!
When they get it, they won’t like that either.
Don’t worry, it will all disappear come November 5.
“...coping with their pain” OMG. They have no pain. They simply want to vent and pick-up free stuff.
I noticed on Twitter back in August, searching #Ferguson would result in dozens of “hip-hop” wannabes, cheering the rioters & looters on.
They can’t resist the allure of violence & rising up against The Man, I guess.
They don’t need no steenking police. Or fire departments. Or schools. Or subsidies. Or stores. Or civilization.
Let’s perform an experiment. Let’s build a fence and declare them a sovereign nation. Perhaps they’ll invent the next generation of gambling, RV parks, and golf courses.
Consider the source....
It would be racist to suggest, but, imagine if we could build a wall around the ghetto. Seal it off, and let the residents therein live their lives apart from a civilization they have so much disdain for.
Does it's obscenity offend you ?
If you say yes, then you have answered your own question.
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