Gregory Kane:
Black Hip Hop: Cooning?
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane405
Article Quote: Juan Williams, author of "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It," devoted an entire chapter in his book to the detrimental effects of rap and told me in an interview that today’s crop of black rappers perpetuate worse stereotypes of black people than all the Hollywood films of the 1950s, ‘40s and even the ‘30s.
On the World Wrestling Entertainment show, "Raw," there is a new black tag team duo that enters the arena wearing baggy pants, gold chains and "grillz" in their teeth. They bop in to rap music and flash gang signs. In one episode, goofy white kids mimicked the signs. The black folks in the arena stood with dazed looks on their faces as if saying "What in the HELL is this?"
The name of the black tag team? Cryme Time.
Where are the Black Thought Police when we need them? You know the folks I’m talking about. The ones who’ve appointed themselves guardians of the precious racial image. The same ones who are ready to drum people like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice out of the race for the offense of thinking unbecoming of black folks.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane405
Article Quote: Juan Williams, author of "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It," devoted an entire chapter in his book to the detrimental effects of rap and told me in an interview that today’s crop of black rappers perpetuate worse stereotypes of black people than all the Hollywood films of the 1950s, ‘40s and even the ‘30s.
On the World Wrestling Entertainment show, "Raw," there is a new black tag team duo that enters the arena wearing baggy pants, gold chains and "grillz" in their teeth. They bop in to rap music and flash gang signs. In one episode, goofy white kids mimicked the signs. The black folks in the arena stood with dazed looks on their faces as if saying "What in the HELL is this?"
The name of the black tag team? Cryme Time.
Where are the Black Thought Police when we need them? You know the folks I’m talking about. The ones who’ve appointed themselves guardians of the precious racial image. The same ones who are ready to drum people like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice out of the race for the offense of thinking unbecoming of black folks.
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