Rap Censorship
I'm so tired of elected officials, politician wanna-be's, and media whores posturing and pretending that they know what's best for the entire country. Are we Americans so ignorant that we need fringe members of the government to tell us what is and what isn't acceptable entertainment for our kids?? What we can and can't listen to? What's good for us and what isn't?? Let's put an end once and for all to this tyranical misconduct and abuse of power and attempt to remove our constitutional right to free speech. The only "gangsterism" I see coming in response to rap lyrics is coming from C. Delores Tucker, William Bennett, and Bob Dole.Are rap lyrics the scourge of society? I think not. America thinks not. As these ineffective politicians will see when America returns to the polls! I'm certainly not saying that it's OK to demean or violate someone else. It's not! What I am saying is that rap should not be dragged around and beaten senseless by a bunch of preppy non-thinking wonderbuns who take pieces of lyrics and analyze them out of context in order to build and further their own political agendas. Most rap artists chronicle their existence in their lyrics. Wanna know how Chuck D felt or what he was thinking when "Apocalypse..."
It is frustrating that a society that claims as many young Black and Latino victims as the United States, would attack rap music, which is often viewed as the only legitimate form of expression by many urban youth, as "part of the problem in society," instead of seeing it for what it is: expression of the ills of society as seen through the eyes of its victims. In lieu of focusing on the lyrics in rap music, perhaps it would be more productive to change those things within our society that the lyrics mirror: unemployment and lack of real education or practical job skills especially within urban areas, racism and prejudice, self-hatred and self-destruction, feelings of despondency and hopelessness, disenfranchisement, lack of empowerment of people, etc. It's not difficult to see which communities are largely affected by these and other problems, in fact it's reflected often in rap music. Let's be careful not to shoot the messenger! Who's the genius who says that rap lyrics cause violence anyway? Where are the non-partisan research and statistics? The crime rate is down in a society that is barraged with violence in film, books, speech, music, media, and real life. Music is a form of entertainment, no matter what genre of music it is. When fans of country music listen to a sad country song talking of a broken heart where self-destruction is seen as the only way out, the listeners are not inspired to commit suicide. Whe
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