In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I have not read Michael Eric Dyson’s book, Between God and Gangsta Rap; perhaps I should, but just based on the information given in the article about him [March 16], I don’t think I need to in order to express my opinion on the subject.
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My opinion? Well, as much as I agree that we should not alienate our children, I do not think that we need to give any validity to rap and hip-hop, not as it stands today; and as Mr. Dyson’s own son expressed in the article, “The substance is going down; it’s all about glitz and glamour.”
As I said before, I do not think we should alienate our children, but there is a limit to everything; I’m not prepared to leap into a cesspool to conduct a dialogue with anyone. We’ll talk later, and only when you get out and clean up a little. At the outset, he related his experience with being robbed by a “gangsta”; in my opinion, they are still robbing us.
