Stop Dissing Hiphop Nation
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Stop Dissing Hiphop Nation
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I can't understand why the civil rights illuminati wake up only long
enough to scold the young people.
Rosa Parks, for instance, the hero of the mid-1950s Montgomery bus boycott, chose to sit out this year's NAACP Image Awards, mounting a sort of personal boycott of her own, even though a biopic in her name was nominated for a number of awards. She's apparently upset about a couple of disparaging remarks about her made in the movie "Barbershop," which was also nominated for five awards.
Parks has already alienated hip-hoppers by hiring Johnnie Cochran to sue rappers OutKast for alleged misuse of her name. Now, instead of bearing the dignity that takes a joke in stride, she joins others who expect so much from a generation they have nothing but contempt for.