Re: [microsound] [OT] hiphop article

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> For those who insist that even the invisible structures of society
> reinforce racism, the burden of proof should rest with them to
> explain just why hip-hop's bloody and sexist lyrics and videos and
> the criminal behavior of many rappers wouldn't have a powerfully
> negative effect upon whites' conception of black people.

believe it or not there actually was a time when Black people actually
"cared" what whites thought of them..." bloody and sexist lyrics and videos"
would never have come to exist if there hadn't been divestment in urban
communities after the civil rights era.

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