The Problem is not Hip Hop
April 20, 2007
I agree with Russell that art, in most cases, is a direct reflection of what the artist sees. It seems as if we have put the cart before the horse. We assume that if we change music, we will change the mistreatment of women. In order to kill womanizing, we must destroy it at its source, and the source is our community. Let’s be honest, misogyny was not created with Hip Hop. We see the mistreatment of women in Religion, Corporate America, in commercials, on television, and in magazines. All of which have a wider demographic than most Hip Hop Music. When I was a child I remember hearing older women telling their daughters, that they should be seen and not heard. If women raised to be trophies, then men must have been raised to treat them as objects. This problem is generational.
I am blessed to have come from a strong mother who was raised by my phenomenal grandmother, and a strong father who taught me how to be a man, after his father showed him. Unfortunately, too many men grow up without a father to teach them how to treat a women, and too many girls are not taught how to be women. Let’s not make this about the art, lets make this about us.
Comments (5)Gunman Dead After Bloody Campus Rampage
April 16, 2007
(CNN) — A lone gunman is dead after officials said he killed at least 31 people Monday during shootings in a dorm and a building housing classrooms at Virginia Tech, making it the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Before Monday, the deadliest school shootings came in 1966 and 1999.
In the former, Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine, killed 13 people on the University of Texas campus. He was killed by police.
In 1999, 17-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18-year-old Eric Harris — armed with guns and pipe bombs — killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
Working on a large university campus this story really hits close to home. My heart goes out to all of the victims and their love ones.
Posted in News
Comments (1)The Legendary Coach Eddie Robinson Dies at age 88
April 4, 2007
The legendary Grambling Head Football Coach Eddie Robinson, has died. He was 88. Coach Robinson was one of the greatest college coaches in football history, amassing over 400 victories and sending more than 200 players to the NFL (7 first-round draft choices) during his 57-year career. Coach Robinson began his coaching career at Grambling State in 1941, when it was still the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute. Robinson’s career spanned 11 presidents, several wars and the civil-rights movement. He will be sorely missed.
Posted in Sports
Comments (1)