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30Jan08
Catch Keli on NPR during a special panel discussion live from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, Thursday, January 31 from 2pm-3pm EST.
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Catch Keli on NPR during a special panel discussion live from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, Thursday, January 31 from 2pm-3pm EST.
Hey, I really enjoyed hearing you at Morgan State today. I was the guy who kind of flubbed the question on whether the civil rights generation severed the link with the hip hop generation with it’s attacks on Obama.
You had an interesting response, I just wanted to follow up by asking, how do you feel the link between the civil rights and the hip hop generation was severed previously before Obama’s campaign?
Keri I heard you on NPR today and there are so many things I disagree with I could not mention them all. I have no voice but you do, and were the only one on the show that said anything worth while. I can not vote for clinton as she is of no value on any level and slap in the hace to women with a brain. I can not vote for Obama at the moment as all the media will say about him is Opra likes him and clinton doesn’t. They will not say anything about his positions. I do not have a tv station that carried the debates. For all that I liked what you had to say I must take you to task for not stepping up on a number of points. If Obama is president it would be of America, not BLACK america. Why didn’t anyone point out that, the question what would he do for black america, is a racist question? Had anyone asked what Kennedy would do for the Irish they would have been run out of town!
I am sick of hearing that slavery is the cause of anyones problems today. It WAS bad and should not have happened. I know it will push buttons and I don’t mean that it should but if slavery of your Ansestor is the reason I or you are an American and not being starved, beheaded, or otherwise deprived somewhere in current Africa than we should thank God for the slavers and say an extra prayer of thanks for the ansestor that had to indure such atrosities.
It is not the American dream to go from the bottom to the top in one generation, although that too can happen. It is our dream to do better than our parents(who seem happy doing what ever they do)(we should pay more attention to the happy aspect) education and HARD work can make that happen. I am poor but that does not stop me from advancing in whatever ways that are presented. One of the guests on the npr show said that the reason black people have a harder time “getting ahead” so to speak is that there are to many black people in jail. Someone needs to tell them to stop breaking the law and they will not end up there. That is a message Obama could give but I haven’t heard it yet. A caller mentioned that if the young people listened to their elders they may not be having so many problems. That too is a message I haven’t heard from Obama (yet).
Forgive me if my spelling makes me look like an illerate, there are some things that even good parents can’t teach.
I hope to hear more from you, well done and well done to the hip hop guy that got out there and got his hands dirty. (I had never heard of him as hip hop is my second least favorite music.) May be some others will see you and he as role moddles rather than the ones in jail that we can’t seem to stop hearing about.
dean bartsch, your comments on Africa are way off. Africa is in it’s current conditions because slavery took it’s people and then was followed by European contol and later colonization. If African empires had united instead of been at war with each other when the Europenas arrived then Africa probably would not be in the shape that it is in today.
You have to remember, slavery and colonization was just as damaging to many parts of Africa as it was to those who were enslaved and taken to the Americas. If Africa’s strongest and youngest men and women were not seized away from the contienent, there is no telling how the African continent would have looked today.
The state that Africa is in today can largely be pointed back to the current or past effects of colonization on a continent that was severly weakened after slavery. To try to discount that and state the African people that are here were fortunate would be perverting history in my opinion. The first enslaved people from Africa came to Virginia in 1607. 401 years later, we are just now having a viable black candidate running for office. Do not forget our long stuggle for freedom and equality…and do not forget Africa’s struggle either.
As far blaming slavery, look I think most people would agree that Jim crow laws, segregation, residential redlining and failed urban renewal initiatives had much more of a direct effect on the current conditions of Black America. But where did those original conditions stem from? Also like Keli said in her NPR discussion, the hip hop generation has much more of a broad focus on issues such as race and poverty then previous generations.