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A lot of people have their own solutions to the problems that plague the black community. One of the more serious issues is the impact of negative commercialized hip hop music, you know, that stuff that big, white corporations pay to mass produce to teach our boys to fill up their prisons and cemeteries. Having a message that consistently promotes self-destructive behavior among black males cannot be disconnected from the fact that so many black men and families are struggling.
While there are certainly barriers to racial progress all across America, one can’t pretend that it’s actually a good thing that these self-destructive messages are being glamorized and repeatedly banged into the heads of impressionable young children – as the “Booty Pop” video made by the 6-year old boy shows, a boy should not learn how to be a pimp and a gangster before he learns his ABCs.
One of the things I’ve consistently heard is that artists and record labels are not to blame, it’s the parents. Some argue that “if black people would simply learn to raise their f*cken kids,” all of these problems would go away. This “blame the black people” argument is like allowing crack dealers to offer discount coupons outside a public school everyday and expect that good parenting would keep all the kids from getting hooked on drugs. Sorry, but there’s a reason you can’t sell crack near a school (or anywhere, for that matter), and the same should be true for music with toxic messages.
I discuss this issue in the video below. The point is not to say that good parenting isn’t important. But there are millions of great parents who remain entirely frustrated by what they see their children becoming. They are also sickened and saddened by the violence that their black boys must consistently confront from men who’ve been in a Mass Murderer Training Program for the last 20 years. It’s a war out there, and although these conditions existed long before gangsta rap, it wasn’t until gangsta rap that we began to celebrate our own death.
The video is below:
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marcel armstead
July 14, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Most of the kids don’t have two parents its no structure in inner city community. Lil wayne 50 cent all them is talking bout kiling People in a booth, not really killing soneone for real its phony anyone with half a brain knows this. If they were Really killing People or selling drugs for real They be in jail Right now. Rap is lik a movie it aint real. beef never end in death its alot of publicity to sell records, or a regular fist fight Nothing serious. U trying to blame the white man and rappers for black problems is the real problem, black lik every other race no right from wrong. Blameing everyone for ur Life failure have never been a form of rehabilitation. Until blacks stop doing this and begin to take responsibility for own actions. We will never be all we can be as a race, blame Game doesn’t work its just a form of running from responsibility. Lik a dead beat parent, a alcoholic, what Have u, they will tell u too fully change they had to step they own Game up and not blame everbody anymore for There bad actions.
I listen to Wayne ross Game kendrick Lamar tyga. 2 chains jeezy ti all those dude would Never commit a Crime for my life. Dont smoke or drink. Its up to the person
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Joe L
July 14, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Dr. Bo you are right this life style is toxic to the black culture and a moral slippery slope for the community ; but when you see BET glamorise and endorse the low life artist in their un Godly actions and even many churches have endorsed and support this as a normal life style for their youth. there is much info on this. videos by Craig lewis that reveal the demonic influence involved, you could not believe that God would inspire this MESS.The true believers must pray and take a stand or we will continue to loose another generation.