Author says Hip Hop holds African Americans back

Don't feel like clicking through to finish reading but from the last sentence can tell where this is going. One only has to ask oneself how many rappers they are AWARE OF and vs. how many Black presidents they are aware of. I know many young Blacks who think they're on the threshold of rap stardom. NOT ONE of them thinks he/she is close to winning the presidential nomination. Looks like another author trying to sell another book.

I saw Saturday Night Live the other day, and as an American Citizen, I actually thought the Betty White Show of Comedy that evening was one of the best I had ever seen; then jz came on and I turned off the tv and erased the show from the dvr.

I agree 100%---

rap was produced and highlited by jewHollywood and jewMusic firms to bring the sons/daughters of slaveAmericans back into slavery of Ignorance.

jz, in my opinion, is still peddling mindAltering drugs on a street corner and dumbing down America.

while Our President Baraka Hussein Obama is Uplifting his American Citizens.

I don't like most rap or rappers, but putting my personal bias aside it depends on how the artist (if we can call them that) use their platform. I have to admit that I have a disdain for Sean Coombs aka Puff Daddy aka P. Diddy, aka Diddy or whatever he calls himself, but this guy along with other rappers help to get the hip hop culture and young generations out to vote for President Barack Hussein Obama our 44th President of these United States of America.

Social Conscious rapper Common talks about HIV/AIDS. What about the guys who did AID to Haiti. It just depends on how you look at it. Many things these kids would not here, if it were not for this Hip Hop Culture. These people were able to mobilize hundreds of people who would have otherwise not voted so let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

They helped with Hurricaine Katrina so let's be open minded. But I will say that I don't allow my son to listen to rap. I will not be open minded in that regards... Ha!

... by the way the hip hop culture isn't going away and isn't limited to Black people ... Hip hop is a movement and has gone global from Japan to Australia. Its better we try to understand it and appreciate it (the good) in it. That would be a better approach. Just my 2 cents worth.

@Clark I blame most of this madness on American's capitalists culture... you aren't big until you're making money and lots of it. I recently had a chance to see 50 cents in "Get Rich or Die Trying".

He you have a guy who decided after getting shot 9 times and LIVED say Hey Wait A Minute There Must Be a Bigger Purpose for His Life. Frankly it wouldn't taken me getting shot to figure that out, but he quit dealing drugs and decided to work harder on his rap career; and he did it through hard work.

Look at him today. He has made millions off of Vitamin Water and has his own Reality Show, and signing other rapper/artist to his label. He's gone from thugin' to being a movie star/actor. I might not agree with his methods, but to each his/own.

oops sorry for the less than perfect spelling... (((hehehe)))