Critique Essay “Trash Rap Makes Imus Possible. By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson” This article is about how well known talk radio host that broadcasted a show call Imus in the morning. He was later fired to do the fact that he called the Rutgers University woman’s basketball “nappy headed hoes”. Earl agrees that Imus should be punished for his racial slur towards a black woman, but is it truly his fault? Famous rappers such as Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, R. Kelly, and ECT… have almost planted these racial slurs into our minds through there “trashy rap”.
“ I knowed he was white inside (40). Huck states that though Jim is African American, he has intellectual thoughts and a lack of education does not change the way Jim thinks and cares. “Jim was most ruined, for a servant because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.” (9).Most people judged Jim, not only because of the color of his skin, but the fact that he spoke differently then white folk. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Jim continues to make intelligent thoughts and problems to the pairs sticky situations and proves to the reader that the southern stereotypes in the 1800’s were racist and
But he is unwavering in his will to explain and expose bitter racism. Antagonists The antagonists are not one, but many. They are the numerous rabid white racists the author meets during his transformation into a black man. They deliberately spew racial poison and almost provoke racial unrest so as to negate and annihilate the very identity of blacks and their deep yearning for liberty and equality. Though nameless and faceless, their raw racism is
Dre were such great artists that white people were afraid to imitate them—they're no better than John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Muddy Waters, and dozens of others whom white artists have happily mimicked in the past. Rather it's that this kind of "theft" became a capital cultural crime, and not just in the academy (how many '90s indie rockers knew by heart the verses in "Fight the Power," where Public Enemy calls Elvis a "straight-up racist, simple and plain"?). If gangsta rap marked a break, it was because hip-hop became coded to reflect the retrenchment of the "Two Americas" and the resultant combative, near-separatist mood among African-Americans. It was deliberately made less assimilable, a development reinforced by the marketplace when white suburban kids turned out to love its more extremist
Obama was elected, people were saying that we are going to hell in a hand basket and people are still complaining and bitching about having a black President. So far he has had some pretty good ideas, and addressed some major points in his Inaugaral Address that America is facing today. Pres. Obama has the ability and strength to carry on this nation to restore the damage that has been done in the past eight years. So far he has proven that he can over come all of the negativity that has been spilled around him because of his skin color.
Cousin Francis yelled, “He`s nothing` but a nigger-lover!” (Lee pg83). Just because Atticus was doing the right and noble thing, Cousin Francis thought that he loved black people but he did not know Tom. Although, Jem stated that, “Atticus says cheatin` a coloured man is ten times worse than cheatin` a white man.” (Lee pg201) It is worse because it is like killing a mockingbird, which is a sin, coloured men do not really bother anybody. And then Atticus explained that, “...You’ll see white men cheat black men everyday of your life, ...whenever a white man does that to a black man, ... that white man is trash.” (Lee pg220). He explained that white men always win and cheat, so the white men are the victors but the white man is always a bad man.
Well I agree with the approach that The Boondocks took on this situation. In the episode “It's a Black President, Huey Freeman”, the Obama craze was in full effect and everybody was representing him for the wrong reasons and they couldn’t give many logical reasons why they were supporting him. There was even a self-explanatory music video called, “Dick Riding Obama”. The episode showed, as time passed, that most of the extreme hype around the election had died down. (It's a Black President, Huey
by J East of anywhere," writes a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "often evokes the other side of the tracks. But, for a first-time visitor suddenly deposited on its eerily empty streets, East St. Louis might suggest another world." The city, which is 98 percent black, has no obstetric services, no regular trash collection, and few jobs. Nearly a third of its families live on less than $7,500 a year; 75 percent of its population lives on welfare of some form. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development describes it as "the most distressed small city in America."
Twain puts a young white boy in a grand journey with an enslaved black man, running for his freedom. Such circumstances are enough to set people off by itself, but Twain goes one step further to show the malice of the time, stereotyping a race. The thought of explaining Mark Twain’s book to students is enough to make most teachers shutter because of the ferocity of actions taken against those who cannot properly present the information. However, it is their job to introduce students to a true literary work of art. If we have no faith in our educators, then we lose hope in future generations’ capacity to judge right from
Harper Lee once wrote in her novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird", "As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash" (220 35-40). There are people out there who understand the workings of todays world and knows whats right and wrong. This is the case for Atticus Finch, a lawyer ina small town of Maycomb Alabama. Throughout the upbringing of the story he teaches his two young children, Scout and Jem Finch what it means to be a good person and how to love somebody for who he truly is. Jem and Scout trust the word of their elders and