Rap disrespect of black icons raises concerns

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 2, 2014 | JESSE WASHINGTON

[artichokegrower]

Malcolm X and rap music have always fit together like a needle in the groove, connected by struggle, strength and defiance. But three recent episodes involving the use or misuse of Malcolm and other black icons have raised the question: Has rap lost touch with black history?

[artichokegrower]

"I don't want to say today's rappers are not educated about black history, but they don't seem as aware as rap generations before them,"

Using the term rapper and educated in the same sentence should bring out the oxymoron police

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hoist on their own petard.

[Steely Tom]

It would appear that entropy is colorblind.

[98ZJ USMC]

connected by struggle, strength and defiance.

Puh-leeze......

Has rap lost touch with black history?

It never was. It's crap.

[cripplecreek]

Malcom X would probably smack these idiots across the face these days starting with Louis Farrakhan.

He was never going to be a tea partier but he was wandering off the plantation and posed a real threat to the black nationalist/muslim movement.

[VanDeKoik]

There were once rappers that actually just made fun music. Politics, thuggery, and irresponsibility apparently made for "better" content.

[DoughtyOne]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of malcontents.

Talk about the hos, the niggas, the shooting up of the neighborhoods, the drug culture, the destrucion of generations of black yutes, and it’s swell.

Start talking down about former anti-government radicals, and boy, did you ever step in it.

IDIOTS, one and all...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Best Performance Ever By A White Chick Rappin’ Goes To:

Debbie Harry of ‘Blondie’ (’Rapture’) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

[hosepipe]

The truth is....... white people are colored as well..
and african americans are almost never from africa..

Rap music is not music it’s humans acting like chimps..
Barry is as white as he is black and his mother WAS a bitch..

[dainbramaged]

I love most forms of music, but rap is not musical at all. The motown sounds of the 50’s - 70’s were great.

[dowcaet]

Wonder if all hell will break loose if one of these rappers uses the N word with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in their lyrics?

[rktman]

Malcolm ex an icon? That’s weird. Unless you consider wanting to overthrow the US iconic.

[rabidralph]

What’s up, Fab Five Diana?

[BenLurkin]

I want to go back in time and date her.

[BenLurkin]

Very well said.

[Mariner]

"Has rap lost touch with black history? "

None of them knew any history to begin with.

[dfwgator]

“Yooooooooooo....you got what I need......”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So do I, LOL! ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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