Friday, November 30, 2007
"The black KKK"
FOX Sports' Jason Whitlock says hip-hop culture is the "black KKK." He makes a convincing argument:
"Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.
"Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.
"But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.
"Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.
"You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.
"Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to 'super man dat ho' and end any and every dispute by 'cocking on your bitch,' nothing will change."
"Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.
"Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.
"But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.
"Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.
"You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.
"Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to 'super man dat ho' and end any and every dispute by 'cocking on your bitch,' nothing will change."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, November 30, 2007 
