So people are really believing all this propaganda B/S.
Somehow I am still of the opinion that you can paint cardboard and it will still be cardboard.
Posted on 02/28/2006 3:31:33 AM PST by Huber
NEW YORK
For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.
On Tuesday, owners of such items _ including pioneering hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy _ will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials.
The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the Life."
The project, the beginnings of a permanent collections, will gather objects that trace hip-hop's origins in the Bronx in the 1970s to its current global reach. It is expected to cost as much as $2 million and take up to five years to complete.
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Hip-hop culture, whose main elements include rappers, DJs and breakdancers, is considered one of the most powerful cultural explosions ever. Today, it's incorporated into marketing to sell everything from cars and clothing to food and furniture.
"Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon," said Valeska Hilbig, a National Museum spokeswoman. "It's here to stay, and it's part of American culture just like jazz is part of American history. It's part of the narrative we tell at the museum."
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Maybe they can get Cornell West to wear bling bling and yap like a junkyard dog from the roof.
You gotta be shi77ing me. Will there be a crack-pipe display also?
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So people are really believing all this propaganda B/S.
Somehow I am still of the opinion that you can paint cardboard and it will still be cardboard.
WHY !!!
Well, fwiw, I've actually got some old early 80s hip-hop crap they're welcome to have. Wonder if I should give them a call!
What a great idea! Let's all mail the Smithsonian (unused) crack pipes, vials, spent shell casings, and copies of cop-killer lyrics. Emphasize how important it is that our children fully undertand and appreciate hip-hop culture. Copy your congressman and your local talk radio station.
Dat be kewl/ Ibe da riaght on dat shiite man! damn!
Well, I think they'll also need some "hooked on ebonics" books to be passed out too. Else you won't understand a damn word they just said.
everyone tries to get into the act.....I hope the Hip-Hop industry doesn't put a Fatwa on me...
White liberal guilt on parade.
Bwahahahahahahahahaah! Man dat gewt ta be da funnset shiite evah!{ Down load ebonics translator to under stand message. Man, that got to be the funniest s@it ever. TRANSLATION COMPLETE.}
No one is "believing" this nonsense, except the curators. We just visited the Museum of American History and, frankly, it is a national disgrace.
We were lured in by the website which touted a special exhibit on Benjamin Franklin, A Revolutionary Role . The Franklin exhibit was one painting and a two plaque discussion of his suit, his clothing - no mention of who he was or any of his real accomplishments.
85% of the museum covers black history and/or labor union history.
For instance, a small Ellis Island exhibit had a section on a changing and developing NYC culture, but the ONLY cultural aspect of NYC explored was Black jazz. No matter how you twist it, Africans were not processed through Ellis Island.
In another exhibit on railroads in America - We were told on EVERY exhibit board (in the same words) that Blacks had to sit in a different compartment, and when we get to a lifelike exhibit of a train station we see seated statues of blacks in a "colored section" (the rest of the station is missing, now).
Then there are the exhibits exclusively devoted to Black History (and covering about 40% of the exhibit space square footage:
Where is Gershwin? Where is Aaron Copeland? Cole Porter? Sinatra? Johnny Cash? Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? Mary Martin?
I challenged my family to find some simple historical facts like - Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Unfortunately, the answers cannot be found in the Museum of American History.
There were visitors from all over the world, but people were obviously bored. I spoke to a few. By and large, they came to learn the history of the founding of America, but a real timeline was simply not available.
The museum is just too "agenda in your face". It is hard to understand why most of these exhibits are not in the Anacostia Museum -- the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of African American history and culture.
Like what, bullets and bad rhymes all with the same beat?
Perhaps a DC Chapter field trip to the museum?
I understand your frustration and agree with your point, but the Ella Fitzgerald exhibit should stay.
In fact they are planning an East Coast West Coast room where the bullets that killed Biggy Smalls, Tupac and Jam Master J will be on display.
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