More mental gymnastics with gangsta rap
Check out this paragraph from the D&C op-ed page:
Last week, a Rochester man, Brian Smith, 23, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his part in the slaying of 20-year-old Triston Harris in 2005. Prosecutors revealed that Smith wrote a rap song about the killing, bragging about his part in it and about having urinated on a street memorial set up by Harris’ family.
A man killed a woman and wrote a rap song about it therefore gangsta rap causes killing?
How about lack of opportunity to stop the cycle of despair - or giving people an opportunity to do something with their lives.
But don’t pull a muscle Jim.
We need you for all those county-changing political endorsements and to defend us against hateful and divisive mailers.
Oh yeah, don’t pull a muscle.
maybe he comes from a ‘music is evil’ tradition. like ‘louie, louie’ was subversive and elvis was profane. maybe gangsta rap is at times tasteless, but eliminating it is treating a symptom not curing the disease, which i think we can agree is the cycle of poverty and its related issues, like despair.
Please, please, please tell me the paper version of the editorial came with a little teeny coupon that I could send in to help stop gangsta rap!