10 Hard Truths Black People Try to Avoid

[fuc_i_look_like]

anyone acting like modern hip hop hasn't been detrimental to black ppl is in major denial. point blank

 

[DarcSkies]

Good drop.

But after a while, it's OUR fault collectively for not doing anything about it. Or making excuses for crackers like most of you pathetic self-hating niggers do.

Crackers be actin up...but we be lettin em *shrug*

 

[blakfyahking]

anyone acting like modern hip hop hasn't been detrimental to black ppl is in major denial. point blank

explain..............

has any genre of music been detrimental to any other racial group?

 

[DarcSkies]

Violent crime has gone DOWN since hip-hop started: FACT. LOOK IT UP.

If you think RAP is the cause of problems in the black community then you really have no problem with rap you're just an ignoramus jackass who thinks black people are SO stupid a rapper can influence the socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual direction of an entire people in less than 40 years. REALLY?!

Has nothing to do with poverty and racism? NAH...must be that Lil Wayne fucking it all up. Every since BLING BLING things just went crazy right LOL

 

[Meta_Conscious]

sigh...

y'all really gonna ignore these great points and talk about hip hop?

ok blacks...

I did a scholarly search to find research linking hip hop to anything detrimental to blacks... I could not.

If y'all can, go ahead...

But here is one:

Compared with adolescents who had less exposure to rap music videos, adolescents who had greater exposure to rap music videos were 3 times more likely to have hit a teacher; more than 2.5 times as likely to have been arrested; 2 times as likely to have had multiple sexual partners; and more than 1.5 times as likely to have acquired a new sexually transmitted disease, used drugs, and used alcohol over the 12-month follow-up period

From "A Prospective Study of Exposure to Rap Music Videos and African American Female Adolescents’ Health," In American Journal of Public Health. 2003 March; 93(3): 437–439.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447759/

from the article:

Because potential mediating factors were not assessed, it is difficult to determine whether the relation between exposure to rap music videos and adolescents’ health status was causal.

there is also sample bias...

and the sample is from 1996 to 1999... Years when the Fugees and Will Smith were going at least 6 times platinum... yet 95% of the sample watched "gangster rap" videos.

rap is worse than ever, yet blacks are doing better... smh

 

[S2J]

Violent crime has gone DOWN since hip-hop started: FACT. LOOK IT UP.

If you think RAP is the cause of problems in the black community then you really have no problem with rap you're just an ignoramus jackass who thinks black people are SO stupid a rapper can influence the socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual direction of an entire people in less than 40 years. REALLY?!

Has nothing to do with poverty and racism? NAH...must be that Lil Wayne fucking it all up. Every since BLING BLING things just went crazy right LOL

Calm yo happy ass down man.

Nobody said it CAUSED it. It ADDS to an existing problem.

I just used this analogy: Hip hop is like throwin gas in an existing fire. And yall silly mfers on some 'Oh no, its ok. We didnt start the fire'

 

[Meta_Conscious]

False accusations...

 

[rip.dilla]

I've been a HipHop fan since 1991 (before I was a teen) and in all those years I could tell facts from fiction in the music.

 

[S2J]

False accusations...

Bruh...ive SEEN you post struggle-articulation posts before, tryna kick knowledge. A lot of bs but the hey, the effort is there...so w/this u gotta b trollin. Gotta be

 

[rip.dilla]

I've been a HipHop fan since 1991 (before I was a teen) and in all those years I could tell facts from fiction in the music.

The world is full of new fatherless niggas bro. Shits changed.

Yeah true but that same year my parents seperated .. And I lived in a different state from 'em schooling

 

[Meta_Conscious]

False accusations...

Bruh...ive SEEN you post struggle-articulation posts before, tryna kick knowledge. A lot of bs but the hey, the effort is there...so w/this u gotta b trollin. Gotta be

what r u even talking about?

the notion that hip hop is doing harm to blacks is unsubstantiated and trivial.

lets discuss economics, family structure, and unity.

 

[A Talented One]

False accusations...

Bruh...ive SEEN you post struggle-articulation posts before, tryna kick knowledge. A lot of bs but the hey, the effort is there...so w/this u gotta b trollin. Gotta be

what r u even talking about?

the notion that hip hop is doing harm to blacks is unsubstantiated and trivial.

lets discuss economics, family structure, and unity.

Why do you say it is trivial?

 

[Meta_Conscious]

False accusations...

Bruh...ive SEEN you post struggle-articulation posts before, tryna kick knowledge. A lot of bs but the hey, the effort is there...so w/this u gotta b trollin. Gotta be

what r u even talking about?

the notion that hip hop is doing harm to blacks is unsubstantiated and trivial.

lets discuss economics, family structure, and unity.

Why do you say it is trivial?

pick an issue and tell me how hip hop is to blame... if its not to blame or significantly exacerbates it, why discuss it?

the theorizing is cool, but empty without empirical evidence to back it up.

there is no need to concentrate on things that can't b measured or changed.

 

[S2J]

I've been a HipHop fan since 1991 (before I was a teen) and in all those years I could tell facts from fiction in the music.

Congratulations my ngga but what does this even mean.

The burden of proof is not 'Can we find examples of people who were unaffected'

The burden of proof is can we find any people who have. Are yall tellin me NOBODY has been affected? Nobody!?

If you concede that at LEAST some have, then what happened to 'If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem'? Huh?

 

[StoneColdMikey]

Can't put the blame on hiphop when the crime rates are down since the birth of gangster rap..

 

[A Talented One]

False accusations...

Bruh...ive SEEN you post struggle-articulation posts before, tryna kick knowledge. A lot of bs but the hey, the effort is there...so w/this u gotta b trollin. Gotta be

what r u even talking about?

the notion that hip hop is doing harm to blacks is unsubstantiated and trivial.

lets discuss economics, family structure, and unity.

Why do you say it is trivial?

pick an issue and tell me how hip hop is to blame... if its not to blame or significantly exacerbates it, why discuss it?

the theorizing is cool, but empty without empirical evidence to back it up.

there is no need to concentrate on things that can't b measured or changed.

In other words, you think it is trivial because you don't believe it has harmed black people.

That doesn't justify calling it trivial, so please stop saying that.

Compare a different example. Some people say that cell phone use causes cancer, but there is no solid evidence to back this up. (At least as far as I know; for the sake of the argument, let's just assume that there is no solid evidence to back it up.) And yet it would totally unjustified to call the issue trivial because of the lack of solid evidence; given how many people use cell phones, the question of whether they cause cancer is anything but trivial.

So given how important the well-being of the race is, it is similarly unjustified to call the question of whether hip hop harms black people trivial.

So again, please stop saying that. You are smarter and, from what I have seen, more concerned about the race than that.

 

[rip.dilla]

I've been a HipHop fan since 1991 (before I was a teen) and in all those years I could tell facts from fiction in the music.

Congratulations my ngga but what does this even mean.

The burden of proof is not 'Can we find examples of people who were unaffected'

The burden of proof is can we find any people who have. Are yall tellin me NOBODY has been affected? Nobody!?

If you concede that at LEAST some have, then what happened to 'If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem'? Huh?

Well..

That's not on me. I know its just music/entertainment. Nothing more.

Its for the artistes who propagate imagery and lyrics to address the issue of delinquency within our youth who are negatively affected by HipHop music ..

 

[DarcSkies]

Violent crime has gone DOWN since hip-hop started: FACT. LOOK IT UP.

If you think RAP is the cause of problems in the black community then you really have no problem with rap you're just an ignoramus jackass who thinks black people are SO stupid a rapper can influence the socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual direction of an entire people in less than 40 years. REALLY?!

Has nothing to do with poverty and racism? NAH...must be that Lil Wayne fucking it all up. Every since BLING BLING things just went crazy right LOL

Calm yo happy ass down man.

Nobody said it CAUSED it. It ADDS to an existing problem.

I just used this analogy: Hip hop is like throwin gas in an existing fire. And yall silly mfers on some 'Oh no, its ok. We didnt start the fire'

That's like saying "change gone come" helped piss civil rights legislation and not giving LBJ & Dr. KING credit.

Consider the fact that people make music. Music doesn't make people.

 

[DarcSkies]

Pass not piss. Lol

 

[High Revolutionary]

It's a cool list but cats been diagnosing the problems with the Black community for decades; let's hear some solutions.