Did Rap Music Cause the Super Racist SAE Chant?
Inquiring minds demand answers.
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No.
We should all feel dumber for having watched that Morning Joe segment.
“The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap…it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again,” host Joe Scarborough said. “So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like [rapper Waka Flocka Flame] who are now acting shocked.”
This is an instance of well-paid individuals on cable news being obnoxiously dense. It’s not worth much of our time, but at least it inspired an amusing hashtag: #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery.
Enjoy:
The Intentionally Withheld Education of Lauryn Hill #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— Little Skeedie (@SKEEerra) March 11, 2015
Genocide and Juice #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Notorious TSF (@MsFlowersTweets) March 11, 2015
Late Reparations #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— MUGGA MANZIEL (@GrandeMarshall) March 11, 2015
It Takes a Nation of Captors to Hold Us Back #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 11, 2015
Straight Outta Europe #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 11, 2015
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