"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of US blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride." - David Foster Wallace
People believed that discrimination against the black community would be over once Martin Luther King stepped in as some form of personal savior for the hopeless. However, discrimination is still alive today and whoever denies this is either white or wealthy and famous. The methodology of making blacks feel inferior has changed but that surely does not mean that racism is gone. It is clear that a few of them have made it into the professional world, sports teams and the music industry. But the success of a few is not enough to cover up the fact that the freedom and the right to equality of the black man have been taken away almost without their knowledge.
In the past, there were physical protests against discrimination but today, all people seem to do is one of these three things: nothing, sit back and sing along to the rap songs that express how they are feeling or they might just turn their problem into a hash tag and wait for someone to pay them the attention they deserve. There are no more sit-ins or any other type of non-violent manifestations; there are only hopeless black men living on public assistance and believing that their lives are supposed to be that way.
- Bremda Acosta
People believed that discrimination against the black community would be over once Martin Luther King stepped in as some form of personal savior for the hopeless. However, discrimination is still alive today and whoever denies this is either white or wealthy and famous. The methodology of making blacks feel inferior has changed but that surely does not mean that racism is gone. It is clear that a few of them have made it into the professional world, sports teams and the music industry. But the success of a few is not enough to cover up the fact that the freedom and the right to equality of the black man have been taken away almost without their knowledge.
In the past, there were physical protests against discrimination but today, all people seem to do is one of these three things: nothing, sit back and sing along to the rap songs that express how they are feeling or they might just turn their problem into a hash tag and wait for someone to pay them the attention they deserve. There are no more sit-ins or any other type of non-violent manifestations; there are only hopeless black men living on public assistance and believing that their lives are supposed to be that way.
- Bremda Acosta
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