onfye

"I can't believe that music of any form can possibly be the cause of ills among the black community."

That's because you aren't black, and you wouldn't know. It's not just music, it's the mainstream media as a whole, and how they depict a successful black.

The black youth don't get to see the successful black businessman, lawyer, doctor or politician. The ghetto drug dealer who became a rapper and now has millions, athlete, etc. are the only success stories we are fed with, on a daily basis.

I KNOW for a fact that it's a major cause, if not THE major cause. The glorification of thug life, drug-dealing, fast-money has mis-guided youth following the wrong foot-steps. I know because I was one of those, and I see them everyday. They don't just listen to the music as a preppy white kid would, they LIVE by the music, and get thrown in jail or murdered.

No one should "love" the kind of rap music that the author is talking about. The love and worship of "gangsta rap" has the black community in shambles.

I made this because I got tired of just blindly having to click on shortened links.