Please don't blame hip-hop. It's older than your children !
This week the Baystate Banner published:
What’s going wrong?
So I wanted to respond.
If rappers are our children's role models and more influential in their lives than the men and women in their family and community then it is us that is to blame not the less than 1% that have found fame and fortune through entertainment. There are men and women who demean and denigrate themselves on the corner of every urban area in america. The governor of California made his fortune by acting out violence. We need to take responsibility and stop asking everyone else to do it.
When is the last time you listened to rap, understood it and then had a critical conversation about it's content with young men and women who listen to it ?
ps. I grew up on Hip-Hop. I am 32, wear my pants around my waist, have no criminal record and speak slang and "good" english.
Respectfully,
Carlos "Tony" Henriquez
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