So people are really believing all this propaganda B/S.
Somehow I am still of the opinion that you can paint cardboard and it will still be cardboard.
Posted on 02/28/2006 3:31:33 AM PST by Huber
NEW YORK
For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.
On Tuesday, owners of such items _ including pioneering hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy _ will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials.
The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the Life."
The project, the beginnings of a permanent collections, will gather objects that trace hip-hop's origins in the Bronx in the 1970s to its current global reach. It is expected to cost as much as $2 million and take up to five years to complete.
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Hip-hop culture, whose main elements include rappers, DJs and breakdancers, is considered one of the most powerful cultural explosions ever. Today, it's incorporated into marketing to sell everything from cars and clothing to food and furniture.
"Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon," said Valeska Hilbig, a National Museum spokeswoman. "It's here to stay, and it's part of American culture just like jazz is part of American history. It's part of the narrative we tell at the museum."
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Maybe they can get Cornell West to wear bling bling and yap like a junkyard dog from the roof.
You gotta be shi77ing me. Will there be a crack-pipe display also?
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So people are really believing all this propaganda B/S.
Somehow I am still of the opinion that you can paint cardboard and it will still be cardboard.
WHY !!!
Well, fwiw, I've actually got some old early 80s hip-hop crap they're welcome to have. Wonder if I should give them a call!
What a great idea! Let's all mail the Smithsonian (unused) crack pipes, vials, spent shell casings, and copies of cop-killer lyrics. Emphasize how important it is that our children fully undertand and appreciate hip-hop culture. Copy your congressman and your local talk radio station.
Dat be kewl/ Ibe da riaght on dat shiite man! damn!
Well, I think they'll also need some "hooked on ebonics" books to be passed out too. Else you won't understand a damn word they just said.
everyone tries to get into the act.....I hope the Hip-Hop industry doesn't put a Fatwa on me...
White liberal guilt on parade.
Bwahahahahahahahahaah! Man dat gewt ta be da funnset shiite evah!{ Down load ebonics translator to under stand message. Man, that got to be the funniest s@it ever. TRANSLATION COMPLETE.}
No one is "believing" this nonsense, except the curators. We just visited the Museum of American History and, frankly, it is a national disgrace.
We were lured in by the website which touted a special exhibit on Benjamin Franklin, A Revolutionary Role . The Franklin exhibit was one painting and a two plaque discussion of his suit, his clothing - no mention of who he was or any of his real accomplishments.
85% of the museum covers black history and/or labor union history.
For instance, a small Ellis Island exhibit had a section on a changing and developing NYC culture, but the ONLY cultural aspect of NYC explored was Black jazz. No matter how you twist it, Africans were not processed through Ellis Island.
In another exhibit on railroads in America - We were told on EVERY exhibit board (in the same words) that Blacks had to sit in a different compartment, and when we get to a lifelike exhibit of a train station we see seated statues of blacks in a "colored section" (the rest of the station is missing, now).
Then there are the exhibits exclusively devoted to Black History (and covering about 40% of the exhibit space square footage:
Where is Gershwin? Where is Aaron Copeland? Cole Porter? Sinatra? Johnny Cash? Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? Mary Martin?
I challenged my family to find some simple historical facts like - Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Unfortunately, the answers cannot be found in the Museum of American History.
There were visitors from all over the world, but people were obviously bored. I spoke to a few. By and large, they came to learn the history of the founding of America, but a real timeline was simply not available.
The museum is just too "agenda in your face". It is hard to understand why most of these exhibits are not in the Anacostia Museum -- the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of African American history and culture.
Like what, bullets and bad rhymes all with the same beat?
Perhaps a DC Chapter field trip to the museum?
I understand your frustration and agree with your point, but the Ella Fitzgerald exhibit should stay.
In fact they are planning an East Coast West Coast room where the bullets that killed Biggy Smalls, Tupac and Jam Master J will be on display.
I get it. With rap, the drive-by shooting was reborn.
The following may not seem related, but I will tell it none the less.
When I was about 12, my dear father gave me one of his "lessons of life".
Son, he said ... what would you do if you were walking down the sidewalk and should see a dog coming at you, on the same side, with white foam coming out of it's mouth?
I replied .. I would cross the street and walk on the other side.
Right, he said.
Then he added ... Now there is a chance that that dog just ate Mrs. Kelly's lemon meringue pie, that was cooling on her window sill, but the larger chance is that the dog is mad (sick, rabies) and you need to get the heck away from it.
I have never forgotten those words, or the many other "lessons of life" he taught me.
Mad dogs are now all over our great country and getting to the other side of the street is becoming more, and more difficult.
By now we should know what the options are.
Correction: ".... most powerful ANTI-CULTURAL explosion"
These (and other) patronizing exhibits should be relegated to the new Timothy Leary Museum dedicated to the decline of civilization.
Your Dad sounds like he is/was a very wise man.
Also, the new Museum of the American Indian is likewise an exercise in left-wing propaganda; the great and rich history of American tribes is largely ignored for the agenda of "consciousness-raising." On your next trip to the National Mall, you can skip this one as well.
Sounds like a good thing to pass on after your descriptions. ;*)
When they made an exhibit of the Archie Bunker's chair from All in the Family, it was the beginning of the end! Rename it the Museum of Popular Culture. If you want to find out about real American history, i.e. the founding and the revolution, you have to dig for it yourself.
I can just see the exhibits now:
Flava Flav's gold teeth
The bullet that killed Biggie Smalls
50 Cent's first "Coney Island Whitefish"
The Hall of Malt Liquor (Sponsoered by Colt '45)
Hall of Ho's
The Role of Bling-Bling in American culture
Busta Rhyme's Mac-10 collection
Run DMC: Hip-Hop Innovators or Christian Sellouts?
Ice-T or Ice Cube: The Rapper's Ice Age
Taking Advantage of the Dis-Advantaged: the History of Hip-Hop Marketing
Stupidity as Art Form
East Coast/West Coast "Civil War" display
I could go on and on...It's just too easy...
In twentyfive years all the present hip-schlock and crap fans will slap their heads and wonder how much pot they'd been smoking when they thought that manure was great.
Will they buy my Vanilla Ice CD?
I twenty five years I would hope that they throw all the imposters into the sea and go back to venerating our Founding Fathers, the U.S.Constitution, morality, and reality.
I realize the circle is large, but I thought we would have come around by now.
Just show all the guns they used to kill each other with, because that's how the rappers will drive themselves into extinction.
I hope Anacostia has been cleaned up some since I was there 15 or 20 years ago. I was installing some equipment in a gov't facility in the Navy yard and had to go look for a Radio Shack, of all things. Got caught in a couple of funeral processions - - a very long morning.
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