"Guns are glorified in hip-hop culture". Bob Costas
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Jason Whitlock is on a short list of people I think maybe just maybe should be publicly executed.
This is true. However the glorification is different.
Hip-Hop is the one genre of artistic expression where if you talk about it, you're supposed to REALL be about it.
No one criticizes Clint Eastwood when he really doesn't live that life.
But Rick Ross was a Corrections officer and people crucify him because he's not really pushing keys and shooting nines?
You ask little kids in the hood if Will Smith really shoots people after watching Bad Boys... They'll probably say "nah"
You ask grown men if their favorite rapper really lives that life he spits on wax, "Of course, or I wouldn't listen to his imposter ass"
No?
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
This is true. However the glorification is different.
Hip-Hop is the one genre of artistic expression where if you talk about it, you're supposed to REALL be about it.
No one criticizes Clint Eastwood when he really doesn't live that life.
But Rick Ross was a Corrections officer and people crucify him because he's not really pushing keys and shooting nines?
You ask little kids in the hood if Will Smith really shoots people after watching Bad Boys... They'll probably say "nah"
You ask grown men if their favorite rapper really lives that life he spits on wax, "Of course, or I wouldn't listen to his imposter ass"
No?
So what is the greater point it tied to for Costas other than segregating white from black players?
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
Only white people should have guns
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
he clearly did.
I didn't listen to the interview, so I was making an assumption. The point I was making is that it was probably taken out of context and hip hop was brought up beforehand in some type of way.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Why are you posting then?
Your points are useless if you didn't listen to the interview.
even if what costas said is fact the reason he said it was to illustrate moral superiority [white] and inferiority [black]...white people cant help themselves...this kinda shyt is as natural as breathing to them...plenty of non white people [black included] consent to this way of thinking without question;;it is sick...
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
That's pretty much what it comes down to.
holidayinn21
:SmugMoneyMike:
u made that very obvious.
Why are you posting then?
Your points are useless if you didn't listen to the interview.
i was not in the presence of a functional computer
but the op posted no link so it could be assumed he thought it was singled out
"We have to acknowledge that guns are glorified in hip hop culture,"
This is a generalized statement. It lacks depth, maturity, and its treating the subject as a one dimensional one. People are sensitive to this, because this has been the treatment that black culture has been subjected to as an enforcement of racism --- reducing black people to its worst elements, as a way to define the whole.
