Left unsaid is whether the artists will also caution their patrons against the choices and behaviors that practically guarantee perpetuating crime, violence, dependency and failure to future generations. Not to mention the seriously skewed priorities and horizons of anyone who relies on rap for life guidance... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes a freestyling look at false leadership, betrayal, abdication and the futility of wishful thinking that ignores true solutions.
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Rappers seem to want it both ways. They write about the thrill and satisfaction of domination through violence and the threat of violence, but when confronted are quick to rationalize that the subjects of their "art" are just what they see in the city every day. They're just social observers and commentators, ya see, like the one who called himself C-Murder because "I see murder every day."
ReplyDeleteHaving a felony as part of your stage name sends a certain message, y'all.
Not exploiting guns as a symbol of urban black manhood is good, I'll admit. Educating about them as badges of freedom would be better. Of course we won't be seeing that.
They always seize on guns as the supposed catalyst for violence. What about knives? What about beatings and stompings with those $200 sneakers? No, no social engineering going on here.
Just heard a snippet of a freedom-oriented talk show. The subject was school searches and confiscating banned cell phones. The host objected to the school officials not only confiscating cell phones from students AND OUT OF THEIR RANDOMLY SEARCHED LOCKERS, but READING THE CONTENTS of those phones looking for who knows what. "Even PRISONERS have SOME expectation of privacy," the host said. "Don't I as a parent have rights?" "No, you don't," said a caller who is a teacher. "If the phone is there, it's a violation of the rules for a purpose, and they've given up their rights by doing that."
ReplyDeleteWe know schools will use the webcams on those loaner laptops to watch and take pictures of students as they sleep, change clothes and surf the Internet. Obviously that's NOT a violation.
A science teacher in the big, rich flagship county school system near here was fired for answering students' questions about the Fourth Amendment in light of the principal's random searches when the social studies teachers hadn't and wouldn't. Then, it was only over pocketknives and pot.
Looks like that "rights" issue has been settled, all right.
NJ anti-violence march gets violent when "memorial" for two "gun crime" victims insists on blocking street, police say permit allows them on sidewalk only.
ReplyDeleteI think we predicted trouble.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-anti-violence-violence-112610,0,2097327.story
Who needs COICA to make us BOHICA?
ReplyDeleteThe Internet copyright infringement law hasn't even passed, yet Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seizing domain names. Maybe they got inspired by the ATF magically pulling regulations out of its ... aft.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-?page=2#comments
This'll be lots of fun, when the Big Change hits, and it goes from Open Season on Whitey, to just Get Whitey. Sorry, I don't swim with sharks, and I don't do social engineering. And "rap" is not an art. It is what you do when you lack talent.
ReplyDeleteThere's a huge DELIBERATE cultural gap, for sure. Bill Cosby has a great rant on it.
ReplyDeleteMore on the school cell phone controversy. School bureaucrats seem to want to take the AG's opinion on investigating phone threats of violence or unsolicited "sexting" of sexual photos and run with it as carte blanche to read all your stuff. You've "surrendered your rights" by having a phone at school.
No.
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