Rappers Doing The Job Of Racists?

[devonin]

The Carte Blanche for minorities to be overtly hostile to majorities while majorities are socially forbidden to be overtly hostile to minorities is far more pronounced in stand up comedy than it is in music. We have an innate tendency in today's ultra-politically-correct society to functionally refuse to ever criticize a minority for making inappropriate remarks about the majority, for fear of being seen to be racist/sexist/whicheverist.

I see the problem with rap/hip-hop music (insofar as there is a problem with rap/hip-hop music) as being centred around the encouraging of negative stereotypes about oneself, not the espousing of negative stereotypes about other races. Though I'm sure we can all see in cases where black culture music portrays negative gangsta-rap stereotypes about blacks, there is almost always an equally strong undertone of "Bad white "The Man"" lyrics.