I was listening to a podcast this weekend of a panel of four black thinkers Glenn Loury was about 'black indentity' and they made a similar point - not necessarily about gangsta rap per se but about how the proponents of 'black culture' are often not the best representatives of 'the black community'. How American blacks' biggest problem …
I was listening to a podcast this weekend of a panel of four black thinkers Glenn Loury was about 'black indentity' and they made a similar point - not necessarily about gangsta rap per se but about how the proponents of 'black culture' are often not the best representatives of 'the black community'. How American blacks' biggest problem is not being ready for the modern world when, supposedly, most of them are graduating high school with an eighth-grade reading level. (Although a lousy education and not knowing shit out of high school OR college appears to be a nationwide, colour-blind problem).
But yeah, glorifying black criminality isn't doing much for their image. Then again, country music is quite popular and tends to brush 'hillbillies' a certain way. Maybe if the Amish had better rap bands we'd be more associated with them too ;)
My focus on racial identification of cultures and subcultures elevates "race" above the status of a social construct even though that is what culture is in many ways. It is the zeitgeist which strongly influences views. Views and actions driven by them impact character which is meaningful. The issue becomes avoidance of prejudgment because influence is not always destiny.
I was listening to a podcast this weekend of a panel of four black thinkers Glenn Loury was about 'black indentity' and they made a similar point - not necessarily about gangsta rap per se but about how the proponents of 'black culture' are often not the best representatives of 'the black community'. How American blacks' biggest problem is not being ready for the modern world when, supposedly, most of them are graduating high school with an eighth-grade reading level. (Although a lousy education and not knowing shit out of high school OR college appears to be a nationwide, colour-blind problem).
But yeah, glorifying black criminality isn't doing much for their image. Then again, country music is quite popular and tends to brush 'hillbillies' a certain way. Maybe if the Amish had better rap bands we'd be more associated with them too ;)
My focus on racial identification of cultures and subcultures elevates "race" above the status of a social construct even though that is what culture is in many ways. It is the zeitgeist which strongly influences views. Views and actions driven by them impact character which is meaningful. The issue becomes avoidance of prejudgment because influence is not always destiny.