Your friend is right. You can't even really defend hip hop anymore. The positives are so few and far in between. Also, none of the positives are even mainstream examples like how Public Enemy and such was back in the day.
You're right about this and right about so called black leaders saying nothing. But, they'll run their mouths about some shit that doesn't even matter on the grand scheme of things.
It bothers me tremendously. I hate having to look at the racial demographics of cities and knowing if theres a high population of blacks that I should probably avoid it. It shouldn't be like that and it's not really that way for any other group.
There have been quite a few black people who have been involved in the creation of technological innovations. Mark Dean of IBM for example is given credit for inventing the PC. Philip Emeagwali was instrumental in the development of the internet of how it is today. Personally, I know a few...
Uh, black Americans DO have more in common with white Americans than Africans in Africa... Skin color alone doesn't mean we share common culture. Our lives are completely different and black Americans are far more westernized in thought.
This song is retarded
This dude graduated with damn academic honors in high school, got an academic scholarship to St. Johns University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Now, he talking about some flunking out of high school and I killed a man bullshit. Man shut the fuck up for real. Who even...