Benzos and Hos

Syl Jones on the marketing of gangsta culture:

Sad to say, instead of achieving what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once called "the Beloved Community," the pernicious fantasy of gangsta rap now projects the universal image of a besotted community. Who would ever have imagined that in 2006, as we bury Coretta Scott King, the struggle for civil rights in America has become, in part, a battle against the debasement of our sisters by African-Americans who peddle the Pornography Option?

I know one thing: if Martin, Malcolm, Medgar and the others were alive today, they would be protesting the trivialization of three centuries of black cultural accomplishments, speaking out against the sexualizing of black society, calling for an end to the idiotic "He disrespected me" epidemic of violence.

Read the whole thing; Jones has had the occasional good column lately.

Oh, not as good as it could have been; Jones resists making the logical jump, to assailing the government policies and that create the huge pool of consumers (black and white) who find this sort of garbage attractive.

But it's a start.

Posted by Mitch at February 17, 2006 06:15 AM | TrackBack