Rap Killed Rosa?!?!
Derrick Jackson, a columnist for the Boston Globe, wrote
one of the most misguided, horribly researched articles I think i've ever read. It seems as if Mr. Jackson is another to tout how "hip-hop is ruining black culture." He believes that Rap is tarnishing Rosa Parks' image. While I've said that to extent on this blog, we always point out that for every hip-hop artist who is awful there are several who speak about socially conscious issues and beliefs.
But, if you read Mr. Jackson's column, you would think that Rap killed Rosa Parks. I can't even continue, that's how bad this column was.
Mocking Park's Legacy
Excerpt:
one of the most misguided, horribly researched articles I think i've ever read. It seems as if Mr. Jackson is another to tout how "hip-hop is ruining black culture." He believes that Rap is tarnishing Rosa Parks' image. While I've said that to extent on this blog, we always point out that for every hip-hop artist who is awful there are several who speak about socially conscious issues and beliefs.But, if you read Mr. Jackson's column, you would think that Rap killed Rosa Parks. I can't even continue, that's how bad this column was.
Mocking Park's Legacy
Excerpt:
ROSA PARKS did not defy a white bus driver in 1955 so teenagers in 2005 could attend school-night concerts by black performers filled with self-hate. As yesterday's newspapers mourned the death of the 92-year-old civil rights icon, thousands of youths in the Boston area counted down the hours to last night's Monster Jam at the TD Banknorth Garden.
The lineup for Monster Jam makes a tragic mockery of Parks. There wasLudacris. His idea of education is a ''song" in which he and guest performers say the F-word 24 times, the N-word 17 times, the B-word 11 times, and do a whole lot of bragging about being ''a full-fledged killa, part-time MC, full-time drug dealer." In another cut, called ''Hoes In My Room," the explicit sexual lyrics are almost completely unprintable in a family newspaper, with 29 utterances of either the slang for whore or the B-word.
In the rap and hip-hop world, many of the daydreams are a nightmare of stereotypes. Rosa Parks has died, and it is up to us how she will live on. She was the quiet woman who changed a nation. Her legacy is being undermined by voices much too empty and loud.
LOL! that article was so stupid it was funny. It didn't even make sense.
What is even more funny is that you found a picture of Luda with people in a hospital. LOL!
this whole thing is just comedy
Posted by
A. R. Watson |
7:49 PM
OMG....
I don't even know where to start! I don't think my anger will allow me to articulate an intelligent response!....I'm just lost!
Okay, that article was ree-damn-diculous!
First of all, we can't lump all rappers together. There are some "conscious" artists out there, as well as the ones who are only concerned with self. Second of all, hip hop is not the cause for the problems that blacks face in this country....ruining black culture??!! Why don't we find more productive things to do to help the black community than point fingers. Now something juvenile: when you point your finger at someone, three more are pointing back at you!
Posted by
Brownsoul |
10:12 PM
Hip hop culture did not destroy Rosa Park's image. Because of her, hip hop is allowed to be as non-sensical, self-absorbed, and worthless as most country music and rock/pop music.
Still, this is interesting: my friend teaches at an inner-city school in a poor part of Philly, and when he asked his students (almost all minorites, most black) who Rosa Parks was, their answer was that she was the lady who sued outkast.
This should be a little troubling.
Posted by
adam |
10:38 AM
what's messed up is that he is using her death and her previous action as a soapbox for his own agenda.
it is patently ridiculous to think for even a second that anyone's death miles away would cancel a concert that is completely unrelated, and let's face it, it is completely unrelated. no relevance whatsoever.
picking apart the lyrics of rap artists may be something that might make sense if you're talking about community violence as reflected by Hip Hop. it might make sense if you're talking about the treatment of Black women as it relates to Hip Hop. in no way is the death of Rosa Parks related to Hip Hop other than at the end of this man's pen.
obviously he is not a fan of Hip Hop, or this article would never have been written.
Posted by
miyna |
3:30 PM