This is just over-thinking a non-issue, and contributes to the fear we all have of speaking openly, and then getting smashed in the face with what has become the worst name a person can get called: racist. Lots of blacks speak out against the hiphop culture. It is a natural conclusion that does not indicate racism. It may be an incorrect conclusion, just the latest in a string of "this generation is going to pot" declarations from the times of Socrates. Perhaps pop culture is always "bad", as it represents the fat middle of society, whereas most of us who think and pontificate are always trying to get people to achieve elevation to the upper 10%.
The overheated writer embraces hiphop, but obviously writes and reads very well. But I cannot imagine that any pop behaviors contribute to such achievements, and instead provide impediments to it. How boring pop culture is to anybody who examines the world around them! Unless, in the case of people like the author, they assign some special meaning to that culture, a meaning unrecognized by 99% of its adherents. Is it really possible that 75% of any generation's youth discovers that the first culture it discovered and embraced was actually a fine and worthwhile culture? That there is no need for them to advance past it, since it is so grand and sophisticated?
Among the different groups of American youths today, there is one group that has a remarkable and special problem: black youth. There is something pervassive there that is problematical. What is it? It's something.
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This is just over-thinking a non-issue, and contributes to the fear we all have of speaking openly, and then getting smashed in the face with what has become the worst name a person can get called: racist. Lots of blacks speak out against the hiphop culture. It is a natural conclusion that does not indicate racism. It may be an incorrect conclusion, just the latest in a string of "this generation is going to pot" declarations from the times of Socrates. Perhaps pop culture is always "bad", as it represents the fat middle of society, whereas most of us who think and pontificate are always trying to get people to achieve elevation to the upper 10%.
The overheated writer embraces hiphop, but obviously writes and reads very well. But I cannot imagine that any pop behaviors contribute to such achievements, and instead provide impediments to it. How boring pop culture is to anybody who examines the world around them! Unless, in the case of people like the author, they assign some special meaning to that culture, a meaning unrecognized by 99% of its adherents. Is it really possible that 75% of any generation's youth discovers that the first culture it discovered and embraced was actually a fine and worthwhile culture? That there is no need for them to advance past it, since it is so grand and sophisticated?
Among the different groups of American youths today, there is one group that has a remarkable and special problem: black youth. There is something pervassive there that is problematical. What is it? It's something.
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