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



<VoiceOfReason> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:17:37 -0600, Obbie L Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, it was written:
> >
> >>
> >> From http://www.msnbc.com/news/1000393.asp?0cv=CB20
> >>
> >> Lee calls rap 'dangerous stuff'
> >>
> >> Director says music portrays blacks in negative light
> >>
> >> 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."
> >>
> >>        © 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
> >> not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
> >
> >>
> >> Now are you satisfied?
>
> Hell no, I won't be until cRap becomes a pariah, shunned by all.

its good to know youre going to die a miserable death...
its the least you could do for us since you are providing us
with some of the wackest trolling ive ever seen...

this looks like a sknight troll...
probably is...





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