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

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, it was written:

> 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 not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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?
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> Hell no, I won't be until cRap becomes a pariah, shunned by all.
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> I'm sad to be the one to tell you, that you're going to become very
miserable and possibly die of bitterness. Look at it on the good side my
caucasian brother.  Rap is a whole lot more decent than listening to all
of, that shock-rock bullshit!