Re: Spike Lee Blasts cRap Music, Does The Right Thing

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:17:37 -0600, Obbie L Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, it was written:
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>> From http://www.msnbc.com/news/1000393.asp?0cv=CB20
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>> Lee calls rap ‘dangerous stuff’
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>> Director says music portrays blacks in negative light
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>> ASSOCIATED PRESS
>>       PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 2 —  Continuing his criticism of rap,
>> Spike Lee told an audience at Brown University that popular music
>> portrays blacks in a negative light.
>>      SPEAKING TO AN audience of more than 400 students Monday night,
>> the director of films including “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X”
>> repeated the complaints he’s made at colleges and universities over
>> the past year.
>>        “I’ve always felt you can feel the progress of African
>> Americans by listening to their music,” Lee said. “Some of this
>> ‘gangsta rap’ stuff, it’s not doing anybody any good. This stuff is
>> really dangerous.”
>>        He said some black adults equate education, good grammar and
>> good grades with “being white,” but when he was growing up, those
>> things were seen as positive goals.
>>        “You were not ridiculed if you spoke correct English,” he said.
>> Lee urged the audience to make their voices heard by not buying or
>> viewing anything that portrays blacks in a negative way.
>>        “We buy all this stuff, not even thinking about what’s behind
>> it ... Think about the power that we have,” the 46-year-old said. “We
>> can’t just sit back and think it doesn’t affect us. We have to do
>> something about it. We have to be more choosy about the types of stuff
>> we support.”
>>        Lee also urged students to follow their dreams after
>> graduation, “or you’ll be sitting around, fat, divorced and miserable
>> because you took some job, or you took some path that you didn’t
>> really want to do.”
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>>        © 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
>> not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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>> Now are you satisfied?


Satisfied, it's a start.  Thank you Spike Lee, a person not afraid to
tell the truth, you are someone I can respect.