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Pen
Posted Mar 7, 2005 11:58 PM
A major attack on Hip Hop has been called by the political right.
Ludacris can laugh since the damage Bill O' Reilly wanted to do to him just helped him blow up, but the right wing political oriented people are trying to pit older blacks and females against our younger hip hop oriented people. (I don't mean that Ludacris is in anyway a willing part of the attack on Hip Hop nor that he is doing anything wrong. I'm just giving some perspective.)
Divide and conquer is their mantra. The way to get a people back to slavery is to get them fighting against each other and then slip up behind them and throw the rope around them or as in this case, doing what they did in Africa getting our own people to sell us to them.
Those people trying to destroy Hip Hop are ostensibly our own people! Yet, behind them we know that the big white Republican images of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Karl Rove tower.
Read what some of our own people have written.
Davey D. reporting on the phenomenum does a fine job just like any whore reporter, giving the right wing side without much diserning analysis. That's all you have to do. You aren't really saying it, just reporting what the conservatives want you to cover. This is the kind of reporting that got 1500 --mostly working class-- troops killed in Iraq. Where is the balance Davey? Because you are supposedly a Hip Hop fan you don't need any? Last time I read something at Davey D's site it said rap was dead 2 years ago. Hey, Davey, guess what!
Now he is informing us that one Lisa Fager who runs the Hip Hop Media Watchdog site www.industryears.com says there are clear studies that show that Hip Hop lyrics hurt young African American women and in fact the whole community.
Davey D: Women carry the fight against hip-hop misogynists
I went to Ms. Fager's site and first you get confronted with a form to fill out to notify the FCC of some dastardly lyrics or talk that burns your ears on any media channel. Yep she's going to make sure the man can fine everyone right now and you can help her do it! Though probably not if they are Repbublican.
I tried to search through and find her "studies" that clearly show that young African American women get their images of themselves from Hip Hop.
What I found seems to say that they talked to young black homies (guys and girls). That's the studies she was apparently talking about. Too bad because that is not scientific research.
But when they talked they learned a lot more from the youths than the young people told them. Or how else do you interpret this:
[[“Even though they never said it directly, many of
these youth feel like they are in dead-end situations, with no way of getting out. They are vulnerable.
They are in pain. They are afraid.”]]
Of course you would have to be a superior person to know what these youngsters weren't telling you.
Much of the other information garnered by the reporting group at the study: HIP-HOP SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE RISKY, DISRESPECTFUL AND LACK TRUST appears to have been extracted by pushy questioning. They even hit on so called "virginity envy". And never deal with the fact that most of what they "found" could apply to any teen group Black, White, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian, not just our teens. I'm wondering how much "taxpayer money" went into this "study. We know that the Bush administration likes to use our money for their propaganda.
One thing that Lisa Fager got right on her site is the fact that the biggest fan base in in white suburban kids.
Another more mainstream source noted that:
[[In fact, hip hop's audience is largely made up of suburban white boys. They purchase four out of five recordings. This makes rap's thug minstrelsy a largely white phenomenon.]] New York Daily News
By the evidence of my living room poll--the numbers and types of kids sitting around my living room any afternoon with my kids watching Hip Hop music videos, I'd say that teenage white girls are keeping up with those guys. Anyway teen groups mingle in color and sexes, like my girls and their multicultural friends in our working class neighborhood.
Soooo if hip hop is so bad. If the videos will turn a good kid to a tramp then why or why do we read that:[[ A study by the nonpartisan research center ChildTrends showed that the number of teens having sex declined from 54 percent in 1991 to 46 percent in 2001.]] Chicago Tribune
Huh? Anyone have an answer?
Yes, HIV is rising, but early sex is declining. How can you blame any of that on Hip Hop though? Apparently Hip Hop is doing its best to make our kids promiscuous, but failing.
Yes, our young poor people are suffering, but it is typical Republican tactics to try blame anyone other than themselves as they take away the money for good health care for our children and families (indeed they have prevented us from having it in the first place).
But lets jump on the bandwagon of the "Blacks for Moral Superiority". I'm sure there is good money to be made selling our brothers back into chains. |
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