[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hip-hop product portrayals divide black community***If all goes as planned, gangsta rapper Nelly's new energy drink will be on store shelves by next month. The brand name: Pimp Juice.

The Loaded Weapon sneaker is among the latest shoes to hit the Converse conveyor belt. And the new game Ghettopoly, a take on the classic board game Monopoly, features "playas" who vie for stolen property and crack.

All three speak to a growing fascination with hip-hop and its portrayal of urban black America. The products have also ignited protests and boycotts nationwide, highlighting a division in the African-American community over what's an appropriate representation of the black experience.

It is part of a larger cultural war among blacks, fought largely along class and generational lines.

"The traditional civil rights model included a kind of politics of respectability, putting the best face of the African-American community forward," says Imani Perry, a law professor at Rutgers University. "There is an absolute refusal in the hip-hop community to adhere to those ideals of respectability, in terms of what the public face of black people should be."***

[archy]

***All three speak to a growing fascination with hip-hop and its portrayal of urban black America. The products have also ignited protests and boycotts nationwide, highlighting a division in the African-American community over what's an appropriate representation of the black experience.

It is part of a larger cultural war among blacks, fought largely along class and generational lines.

"The traditional civil rights model included a kind of politics of respectability, putting the best face of the African-American community forward," says Imani Perry, a law professor at Rutgers University. "There is an absolute refusal in the hip-hop community to adhere to those ideals of respectability, in terms of what the public face of black people should be."***

We had a motivational speaker here at the University of Memphis who pointed out that statisticly, it's more likely that a Black teenager will be convicted of a felony and sent to prison than to graduate from college.

I don't know that it's so, and haven't yet tried to track verification down, but if true, it wouldn't surprise me a bit.

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[Fresh Wind]

African Americans have been conspicuously silent as black music, once the joy and strength of black people, has detoured into an open sewer of so-called ``hard-core rap.''

Aiding and abetting this situation are the guilt-ridden white liberal media elite who have elevated this aural graffiti to the status of "art".

[FreedomPoster]

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[mhking]

A month and a half ago, I talked about PimpJuice. Some folks figure it's OK - since it's a black person exploiting other blacks.

Par for the course for the Jackson-Sharpton cabal.

The double-standard continues.

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[CSM]

Anyone hear of the book "Scam"? The author was on Hannity's radio program yesterday and I can not remember his name. It sounded like a good read, if anyone has read it let me know if it is anygood?

[oyez]

We are told to forget the steriotypes. That's fine, but some have death grip around them and those are the ones who have the most to gain by turning loose. A kind of death wish, I'd think.

[Warrior Nurse]

All three speak to a growing fascination with hip-hop and its portrayal of urban black America. The products have also ignited protests and boycotts nationwide, highlighting a division in the African-American community over what's an appropriate representation of the black experience.

This will go well on the shelf with Colt .45 and Schlitz Malt Liquor as well as Olde English 800. It's funny that I never found these brands in the liquor stores in the suburbs.