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To: DeFault User

Speaking of Wynton Marsalis:

From the link below:

Black Americans are now free. What holds them back is the ideology of “authentic blackness”—a black identity rooted in the urban underclass culture of hatred of authority (especially of the police, the teacher, and the boss), indifference to learning, misogyny, sex stripped of love or commitment, hustling, resentment, drug trafficking and using, tolerance of lawbreaking, and rage, rage, rage, the hallmark of keeping it real. That’s the message rap hammers home constantly with its mind-numbing rhythm. Classical and jazz trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis, who despises rap more because it is anti-music—devoid of harmony, beauty, structure, transcendence, or thought—than because of its odious, subliterate lyrics, nevertheless scornfully dismisses the medium’s main story line: “Now you have to say that you’re from the streets, you shot some brothers, you went to jail. Rappers have to display the correct pathology.”

https://www.city-journal.org/html/cut-c-rap-15692.html


57 posted on 02/19/2018 1:27:11 PM PST by donaldo
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90 posted on 02/20/2018 6:18:31 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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