Yep that's what I am talking about. This is where the virus comes in. No doubt the surburban white kids would have rebeled in one way or another but hopefully in a more productive way. I know that things like jazz and R&R came under similar criticism but they were more redeeming in that they involved mastering traditional musical instruments and generally a better quality of lyrics. The best that you could say of the aesthetics of rap is that it is a twisted revival of the Greek chorus.

The racism aspect is too complex for my tired and awkward fingers. It would make for a good conversation but as a thread it tends to be argumentative and tedious. I will only say that however dead racism is today, it was sop for far too long and we are paying for it. If you look at other countries it appears to me that cultural integration of blacks is much better.

No guilt, no reparations, just a fact of life.