At some point I would like to believe that opportunism, even the most base kind gets put aside during certain instances, tragedy being amongst them. This belief is in vain while individuals like Jason Whitlock aka HouseNigger Dujour roam the Earth.
Before the late Sean Taylor's body became cold, Mr. Whitlock took the opportunity to yet again reduce the complexities of crime, poverty and miseducation to being the result of rap music. The inability to support this obviously cheap, predatory and pathetic scapegoating of Rap music would be sufferable if the forces coalescing around this paradigm weren't being given legitimacy.
In Mr. Whitlocks world; life in the Black community exists in a vacum where the realities of miseducation (as enhanced by NCLB), Unemployment and sexism are all non-existant outside of their attachment to Rap. A genre of music in his twisted myopic view is capable of supplanting not only centuries of inequality; but ironically enough personal responsibility as well in determining the reality of Black existence.
What doesn't fit the Rap menace paradigm is that 80% of the music produced from the genre is purchased by Whites. If Rap has not only a correlation but a causatory link to violence, crime and sexism; why don't we see the same level of these pathologies in the White community as we do the Black community? Could it be that the issues at hand are bigger than rap? Along these lines, Rap sales are at a 40% decline while the murder rate in the Black community is simultaneously increasing. By any reasonable standard that is an inverse relationship. So again, the facts don't match up with the claims but that never gets in the way of self-aggrandizement.
We all know Whitlock will be back but hopefully he will have the decency not to prop himself up on the corpse of a young man who was senselessly murdered.
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I agree. But a decline in sales of rap music doesn't mean a decline in the amount of music that reaches the people or the amount of people that own an album. I know plenty of people with dozens of albums who've never set foot in a music store. They don't realize that their failure to support the artists that they like so much by downloading and bootlegging their albums can, probably won't, but can lead to a serious decline in the amount of music produced.
You are right about declining sales not translating into a diminished presence of Rap music in the public's consciousness.
What is interesting is that diminished sales seem to be only referenced by critics as proof of the public becoming disenchanted with Rap.
Ironically,they could argue that the ability of people to circumvent legally purchasing the material makes its presence even more insidious.
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