On Friday, Oct 6, 2006, CBS News Anchor Kati Couric profiled Juan Williams on the show’s Free Speech segment. Williams voiced his opinion about trends influencing the growing poverty among the black family. Williams suggested that the growing number of unwed mothers and their children dropping out of school apathetically contributed to the growing poverty within the African-American community.
Williams suggest that in addition, children coming from such an environment are unprepared to take advantage of the one readily available vehicle in escaping poverty, education. Instead these children are influenced by the images of hip-hop gangster rappers, pimps and prostitutes as a way of life. But little is said about the soft pornography of hip-hop that is being peddled in the African-American as gangster rap and hip hop culture. The industry’s marketing of soft porn to young female teenagers as a job alternative instead of working at the local low wage retail industry.
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Sooooooo I guess that means that all the rhetoric that Juan Williams AND Bill Cosby AND John McWhorter AND Larry Elder have spouted out over the years DOES have a ring of truth to it then?
ReplyDeleteImagine that.
EDUCATION...not the BEST way to get ahead...just the ONLY way...right?
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B.G.