Michael Brown’s Raps: Money, Sex, Drugs

> Agree. St. Trayvon and now St. Big Mike well timed

Both were into thug culture, engaging in criminal activities and attacked their prey who had guns. Both held up as heroes and saints. Maybe we’re looking at it wrong. Maybe that is the type person blacks look up to as heroes in their culture. If so, it’s a sad statement about the times.

> I’m curious about his juvenile records. I have to wonder if this is just another media sham that he was a “young man with some potential.” maybe he was really just a habitual criminal all along.

It’s all the white man’s fault. He wouldn’t have been shot if the white police officer hadn’t tried to stop him from taking his gun. The white man kept him down by not letting him.... excel in school, look for a job, be a good person
Everything is always everybody else’s fault with thug culture. Man up and become the Ben Carsons and Allen Wests of your race and you will be respected and have more street cred than you’d ever get by be being “Little Mo’ “ or “JiggyZDaddy”....

Can I ask a stupid question?

Why is it somehow a sign of good character, that news reports tell us someone is an aspiring rapper?

Rap music is full of violent imagery of death, violence to cops, violence to women, etc.

Why does the media glorify rap as just a form of music, without noting that the influence of rap among ghetto folks contributes to their bad life situations????

“Can I ask a stupid question?”

Not a stupid question at all, as what passes for “race relations” these days defies logic.

And it’s nothing new. When graffiti taggers were reclassified from simple vandals to “street artists” over 40 years ago, I knew that we, as a civilization, were in big trouble. Today, it’s hard to find a freight car or industrial building that hasn’t been blighted and devalued.

Even the worst aspects of what is called “black (or urban) culture” gets lauded by the guilt-ridden left, no matter how sociopathic the message might be. The most foul, vile, misogynistic, racist, or violent black music gets heralded as “authentic” or “socially relevant” by the left. (At least those who have yet to held up at gunpoint.)

Back in the early 70s, Dan Jenkins wrote “Semi Tough”, a novel that spoke honestly about NFL race relations at that time. One of the characters observed that “it’s not that a black man can’t get into a restaurant anymore, it’s that he can’t get thrown out.”

And today, if a black man hopped up on a dinner table at a liberal formal function, dropped his pants, and plopped a turd in the punchbowl, there would be no shortage of guilty whites applauding his latest display of urban performance art.

So this insidious “soft” racism of lowered expectations is nothing new, it was and is the foundation of the Great Society set asides, affirmative action, and myriad social programs that do nothing but grow ever larger by increasing the size of the socialist plantation at the expense of society at large. Slavery comes in many forms, generational dependence is one type, and a lifetime spent paying obscene taxes to support this travesty is another.

All animals are equal, after all. But some are more equal than others.

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