Hip Hop [that] you expressed just this past February. That time, you stated your position [as] “hip hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last ten years.”
This time, you found an example to support your opinion by putting the spotlight on Kendrick Lamar’s BET2015 performance of “Alright” specifically the line out of the song “police want to kill us dead” along with the rapper standing atop a police cruiser car (yes-a police cruiser) vandalizing it, is (in your opinion) “counter productive and sending the wrong message and inciting violence” [sic]. Unfortunately, the “performance art” in it wasn’t seen by you: his re-enacting what we just saw in Maryland accompanied by his song expressing the frustration of the people who’ve experienced (or witnessed unjust at the hands of police officers this past year alone) perhaps wanting to vent in that way but couldn’t.
But back to your statement [and stance that] “hip hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last ten years.”
There are three problems I have with that:
- A statement like such is better believable and acceptable by someone(s) within the race as, not all “black and brown” people embrace Hip Hop SUBculture. To that end Geraldo, if that were the case-the race and the world would certainly hear from other “black and brown” people of the race/culture who share those same sentiments.
- Seeing as though you are not of the race and [the fact that] you are in opposition of Hip Hop, your making such a statement is really like…(in an attempt to turn a mirror to the face of the race)…you’re really turning a two-way mirror to the face of the race: By trying to deliver a statement as if you care about the plight of the race, while at the same time; pressing upon one of the biggest issues the race faces, by trying to pull its card by stabbing at a subculture of music embraced by the race (then conveniently using its performance art or expression of frustration as scapegoats and inviting the world to it needing to be seen as “enemy number one” (slash) “enemy theirs.” That, to me is: reverse psychology racism, under the guise of disguising your personal prejudice Geraldo.
- You don’t care either way–about the plight of the race or that (in your personal summary of statistics) “in the last ten years” Hip Hop does, or has done more damage to “black and brown” people [than racism has?] Really Geraldo. Do you really believe that?
Question.
Riddle me this:
How can a form of music only about 40 years old that serves as an outlet, occupation/living, or a lifestyle for a subculture (and not even embraced with solidarity by the entire African American culture) by any means compare to 400 years of oppression with the might of, but against the will of a people by which business, the foundation and the fabric of was America built?
That being the facts, how has Hip Hop done more damage than that of the remnants of racism (that serve as a foundation to white privilege through today?)
How sir?
Considering those two comparison of facts alone Geraldo you can’t fancy yourself an intelligent man. Just call yourself what you are: a prejudiced man.
Hip hop music and the lovers and makers of it (even collectively) have no power or privilege to start a revolution of any kind or at any level—any more than Hip Hop subculture and African Americans have any power to be racist, so sit tight Geraldo.
No matter how many performance art stage shows you see where it looks as though a rapper is inciting violence, be rested and assured his venting
